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Por fin! A cancer prevention code for Latin America and the Caribbean
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Por fin! A cancer prevention code for Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Myriam Vidal Valero
  • 3 April 2024

Last October, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) launched its Latin American and Caribbean Code Against Cancer, seeking to help reduce the region’s rising cancer incidence rates. “We must act now to reverse the projected trends,” said Elisabete Weiderpass, Director…

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Tackling cancer in high-risk areas: the ‘Marmot City’ model
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Tackling cancer in high-risk areas: the ‘Marmot City’ model

  • Francesca Albini
  • 2 April 2024

Inequalities in social, economic and educational status are inherent in all societies, to a greater or lesser extent. The discovery that a person’s health and life expectancy are closely tied to their position in the social hierarchy opened up new…

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Women’s career progression in science: challenges, barriers, and solutions
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Women’s career progression in science: challenges, barriers, and solutions

  • Adriana Albini
  • 8 March 2024

Despite significant and hopefully promising discussions, graphs plotted using data from studies conducted at global and European levels continue to show a distinctive ‘scissors’ shape, indicating a significant gender gap in academic and scientific careers, which starts at the doctoral…

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Making sense of recent progress in advanced breast cancer
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Making sense of recent progress in advanced breast cancer

  • Anna Wagstaff
  • 6 March 2024

Every two years breast cancer specialists and patient advocates gather at the Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) International Consensus Conference to discuss challenges and uncertainties in treatment and care of people with advanced breast cancer, to explore how evidence, knowledge and…

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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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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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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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Advocating for accessible cancer care in the global South: are we doing this all wrong?
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Advocating for accessible cancer care in the global South: are we doing this all wrong?

  • Anna Wagstaff
  • 20 October 2023

“You have to convince the people with their hands on the levers of power. They don’t see things as we see them. They have other problems on their minds…”  Ten years after launching the Stop Cancer Now! appeal, which outlined…

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