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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 School for Oncology (ESO) in Milan, Italy. There were winners…
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 the 1980s, had long been fiercely debated. But by 2015…
Editorial Team
Editor-in-Chief: Adriana Albini Senior Associate Editor: Anna Wagstaff News Editor: Janet Fricker Core Contributing Writers: Rachel Brazil, Alberto Costa, Simon Crompton, Sophie Fessl, Janet Fricker, Anna Wagstaff International Editorial Panel: Victoria Forster (Canada), Valeria Hartt (Brazil), Marwa Kocak (Turkey), Andrei…
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 the European School for Oncology (ESO) in Milan, Italy.The overall…
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 Zoefel, Deutschlandfunk, Germany,Jason Gale, Bloomberg Markets, Australia In addition, American…
If the risk is very low, should we still call it ‘cancer’?
'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…
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 ultra high dose-rate delivery could present the greatest transformation 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 survey of patient experience from the Danish Cancer Society found…
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 on real patients in a real operating theatre – which…
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 nagging – sometimes devastating – fear that their cancer will…