Simon Crompton

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 School for Oncology (ESO) in Milan, Italy. There were winners…

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 the 1980s, had long been fiercely debated. But by 2015…

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 the European School for Oncology (ESO) in Milan, Italy.The overall…

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 Zoefel, Deutschlandfunk, Germany,Jason Gale, Bloomberg Markets, Australia In addition, American…

Head-to-head comparisons of the effectiveness of radiotherapy and surgery are not often – or easily – performed. Yet, for some types and stages of cancer, there is an increasingly apparent need for hard evidence about their comparative risks and benefits…

'Cancer’ is the weightiest of words. Jacky remembers the impact those two short syllables had when she was given her results after tests for breast cancer. “I went into this little room and they told me that I had cancer…

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 ultra high dose-rate delivery could present the greatest transformation of…

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 survey of patient experience from the Danish Cancer Society found…

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 on real patients in a real operating theatre – which…

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 nagging – sometimes devastating – fear that their cancer will…