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Simon Crompton
Cancer Journalism Award winners 2021
Outstanding journalism recognised in ESO Award Journalists from Italy, Germany and the UK have been recognised for their outstanding achievement in the 2021 Cancer Journalism Award, organised by the European…
PSA population screening is back in favour: here’s why
Five years ago, the idea of national screening programmes for prostate cancer had gone cold. The benefits of PSA (prostate specific antigen) blood testing, introduced as a screening tool in…
Editorial Team
Editor-in-Chief: Adriana Albini Senior Associate Editor: Anna Wagstaff News Editor: Janet Fricker Core Contributing Writers: Marc Beishon, Rachel Brazil, Alberto Costa, Simon Crompton, Janet Fricker, Sophie Fessl, Anna Wagstaff International…
Cancer Journalism Award winners 2019-2020
Outstanding reporting recognised in ESO’s Cancer Journalism Award Journalists from Germany, Belgium, Kenya and Mexico have been recognised for their outstanding achievement in the 2019-20 Cancer Journalism Award, organised by…
Best Cancer Reporter Award winners (2006 – 2015)
2015 Best Cancer Reporter Award 1st Prize: Matthew Hill, BBC, UK2nd Prize: Patrice Goldberg, Matière Grise, Belgium 2014 Best Cancer Reporter Award 1st Prize: Steven Buist, Hamilton Spectator, CanadaJoint 2nd Prize:Katrin…
Ultra-high dose rate radiation: is FLASH the future?
Radiation that kills only tumour cells and spares healthy tissue? It sounds too good to be true. But if the promise of recent research is fulfilled, the FLASH technique of…
Shared decision making: translating our aspirations into clinical practice
Despite growing awareness of the importance of shared decision making in cancer, there is plenty of evidence that it is still not being implemented as it should be. A national…
Expert cancer surgery: could VR help speed up and standardise training?
Spinal surgeon Bronek Boszczyk has said that training in complex surgery is like having to learn the violin during a full orchestral concert. The training revolves around closely supervised surgery…
What do you say when your patient can’t stop worrying about recurrence? Here’s what you told us
It isn’t over when treatment’s over. Even if, as far as the clinician is concerned, therapy has been successful and the cancer is effectively ‘cured’, cancer patients often experience a…
Preventing burnout: are we too focused on personal resilience?
Burnout. That short word barely conveys the dispirited cycle of weariness, negativity and powerlessness health staff experience when high aspirations to help and cure are consumed in an unattainable to-do…