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Ethnic differences in cancer biology: What we are learning, and why it matters
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Ethnic differences in cancer biology: What we are learning, and why it matters

  • Rachel Brazil
  • 22 February 2024

There have been great strides in our understanding of cancer genomics - the mutational events that lead to high cancer risks and those that drive progression in cancer patients. Using vast databases such The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) from the…

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Not just a climate issue: cutting cancer rates through cleaner cooking fuels in Africa
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Not just a climate issue: cutting cancer rates through cleaner cooking fuels in Africa

  • Esther Nakkazi
  • 9 February 2024

Nearly one billion people in Africa depend on polluting fuels like wood, charcoal, and kerosene for cooking, lighting, and heating their homes. The resulting household air pollution leads to approximately 700,000 premature deaths every year, constituting about 10% of the…

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Hero? Survivor? Using the right words matters, but it’s not always straightforward
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Hero? Survivor? Using the right words matters, but it’s not always straightforward

  • Victoria Forster
  • 9 February 2024

A new survey of 1,871 people living with cancer in the UK and US has revealed significant differences in the terms that they would like to be used to describe themselves. Descriptive terms such as “victim,” “sufferer” and “cancer stricken”…

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Pooled procurement of drugs saves millions for Indian cancer centres
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Pooled procurement of drugs saves millions for Indian cancer centres

  • Swagata Yadavar
  • 26 January 2024

A pilot project pooling the procurement of cancer drugs has led to cancer institutes in India saving over USS 116 million – an 82% average reduction on the drugs' reference prices. The results of the pilot project, led by Tata…

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Reversing the rising trend in prostate cancer mortality in Poland
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Reversing the rising trend in prostate cancer mortality in Poland

  • Agnieszka Witkowicz-Matolicz
  • 25 January 2024

Between 2015 and 2020, age-standardised prostate cancer mortality rates rose by an estimated 18% in Poland, reflecting an increase in deaths from 4,876 to 5,748 over that period. This trend was in sharp contrast to EU countries as a whole,…

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From stigma to strategy: Egypt’s journey in combating cervical cancer
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From stigma to strategy: Egypt’s journey in combating cervical cancer

  • Marwa Koçak
  • 12 January 2024

Before 2021, there was little official focus on cervical cancer in Egypt. The World Health Organization's 2021 report indicated that fewer than 1 in 10 Egyptian women had been screened for cervical cancer in the previous five years. That was…

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Tackling the crisis in Europe’s oncology workforce
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Tackling the crisis in Europe’s oncology workforce

  • Esperanza Escribano
  • 12 January 2024

"We’ve heard politicians saying, ‘It's a time bomb’. No, it's not a time bomb. We see the system is cracking completely right now." Norbert Couespel, senior coordinator of policy research at the European Cancer Organisation, voices his deep frustration at…

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Regional cancer centres to boost access to cancer care across Uganda
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Regional cancer centres to boost access to cancer care across Uganda

  • Esther Nakkazi
  • 15 December 2023

The Uganda Cancer Institute, set up in Kampala in 1967 as a centre for research and treatment of lymphoma, was one of the first cancer treatment centres in East Africa, and continues to play a leading role as a national…

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Geriatric oncology: how physicians in Latin America are personalising treatments and changing attitudes
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Geriatric oncology: how physicians in Latin America are personalising treatments and changing attitudes

  • Myriam Vidal Valero
  • 1 December 2023

When Gerardo Silveyra, a retired chemist from Toluca, Mexico, thinks about his recently deceased mother, Guadalupe Contreras, he regrets not having taken her to see a geriatrician sooner. Contreras, who died aged 93, had been “a very active woman,” and…

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Further and faster: ECO mobilises to accelerate momentum from Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan
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Further and faster: ECO mobilises to accelerate momentum from Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan

  • Anna Wagstaff
  • 30 November 2023

“All over Europe new initiatives are being triggered. New communities of action are being formed, from young cancer trainees taking part in interspecialty training together, to cancer centres in every country getting ready to be part of a brand new…

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