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A call to action: how Poland is stepping up for Ukraine’s cancer patients
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A call to action: how Poland is stepping up for Ukraine’s cancer patients

  • Agnieszka Witkowicz-Matolicz
  • 22 July 2022

February 24, 2022. Julia, a lawyer living near Kiev, is counting down the days until her last chemo. After which she will still face surgery and radiation therapy on her way to recovering from breast cancer. Before dawn, she wakes…

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Unicorns for Ukraine: mobilising to meet patients’ changing cancer care needs
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Unicorns for Ukraine: mobilising to meet patients’ changing cancer care needs

  • Sophie Fessl
  • 8 July 2022

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, consultant clinical oncologist Mohammed Hojouj put out a call for help: “Cancers do not stop growing because there is a war. But cancer patients stop being seen as a priority.” The story he…

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Long-term health: is it time to update the priorities of cancer research?
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Long-term health: is it time to update the priorities of cancer research?

  • Anna Wagstaff
  • 8 July 2022

“I was told that cancer was a temporary condition ‒ just get through treatment and things will go back to normal. I quickly realised that this is not true.” Gregory Aune was treated for Hodgkin’s disease when he was 17.…

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Preventing burnout: are we too focused on personal resilience?
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Preventing burnout: are we too focused on personal resilience?

  • Simon Crompton
  • 10 June 2022

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 list. “You're trying your best but nothing's moving and you…

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From social determinants to cancer outcomes: the cell biology behind the disparities
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From social determinants to cancer outcomes: the cell biology behind the disparities

  • Janet Fricker
  • 29 April 2022

Raised levels of stress are a normal response to being diagnosed with cancer, and asking patients about their psychological and emotional wellbeing is, or should be, a normal part of attending to their quality of life. But can stress directly…

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A success story in Romania’s struggle to control cervical cancer
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A success story in Romania’s struggle to control cervical cancer

  • Andrei Mihai
  • 26 April 2022

In rural Romania, in a small town called Sadova, some 200 km west of the country’s capital Bucharest, the local community is trying to ensure that their daughters don’t have to live in dread of cervical cancer. Sadova is an…

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Developing palliative care: new WHO guidance helps countries tailor their own path
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Developing palliative care: new WHO guidance helps countries tailor their own path

  • Esther Nakkazi
  • 1 April 2022

Image: Delivering palliative care in Kerala, India ©Camilla Perkins, camillaperkins.com Delivering palliative care to avoid unnecessary health-related suffering is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “a moral imperative and a human right”. Yet only a tiny proportion of…

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Global elimination: securing a future free from cervical cancer
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Global elimination: securing a future free from cervical cancer

  • Sophie Fessl
  • 31 March 2022

August 7th 2020, much of the world was in various states of lockdown, anxiously awaiting news about progress in development of vaccines against the new SARS-Cov-2 virus, which by then had taken the lives of almost 1 million people. But…

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Do patents encourage or discourage innovation? Intellectual property from ancient Greece to the Covid pandemic
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Do patents encourage or discourage innovation? Intellectual property from ancient Greece to the Covid pandemic

  • Adriana Albini
  • 18 March 2022

In October 2020, India and South Africa submitted to the World Trade Organization (WTO) a proposal for a waiver from certain provisions of the Trips agreement – the 1994 WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. The rationale…

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The invisible cure. Should we be talking more about cancer surgery?
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The invisible cure. Should we be talking more about cancer surgery?

  • Anna Wagstaff
  • 10 March 2022

The best chance of being cured of cancer is through surgery by expert surgeons with a deep knowledge of oncology. Why then are the public, patients and policy makers so focused on drugs, and does it matter? Mass media have…

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