Cancerworld Magazine
  • About the Magazine
    • About us
    • Editorial Team
    • Events
    • Archive
    • Contacts
  • Articles
    • Policy
    • Practice Points
    • Delivery of Care
    • Biology basic
    • Medicine
    • Featured
  • Contents
    • News
    • Editorials
    • Interviews to the Expert
    • In the Hot Seat
    • Profiles
    • Obituaries
    • Voices
  • ESO College Corner
SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Cancerworld Magazine
Cancerworld Magazine
  • About the Magazine
    • About us
    • Editorial Team
    • Events
    • Archive
    • Contacts
  • Articles
    • Policy
    • Practice Points
    • Delivery of Care
    • Biology basic
    • Medicine
    • Featured
  • Contents
    • News
    • Editorials
    • Interviews to the Expert
    • In the Hot Seat
    • Profiles
    • Obituaries
    • Voices
  • ESO College Corner
Cancerworld Magazine > Articles > Policy

Policy

59 posts
PSA population screening is back in favour: here’s why
View Post
  • Articles
  • Policy

PSA population screening is back in favour: here’s why

  • Simon Crompton
  • 23 April 2021

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…

View Post
Older, frail patients are still being let down by the regulators
View Post
  • Articles
  • Policy

Older, frail patients are still being let down by the regulators

  • Sophie Fessl
  • 8 April 2021

Hans Wildiers is frustrated. “This drug is well-tolerated in older persons – this is a very frequent conclusion in publications. And it is often not a correct conclusion,” says the immediate past president of SIOG, the International Society of Geriatric…

View Post
Not too little, not too much… a lesson for cancer prevention from ancient civilisations 
View Post
  • Articles
  • Policy

Not too little, not too much… a lesson for cancer prevention from ancient civilisations 

  • Adriana Albini
  • 31 March 2021

“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” This quotation from Hippocrates pops up regularly in writings advocating a…

View Post
Beating cancer is complex – our messaging must be clear
View Post
  • Articles
  • Policy

Beating cancer is complex – our messaging must be clear

  • Anna Wagstaff
  • 11 February 2021

A window of opportunity is opening up across Europe to reverse the ever-rising trend of new cancers and improve outcomes for patients everywhere. It’s been brought about in part by a major shift in favour of Europe taking on a…

View Post
Croatia’s cancer plan showcases the value of European cancer collaboration
View Post
  • Articles
  • Policy

Croatia’s cancer plan showcases the value of European cancer collaboration

  • Sophie Fessl
  • 9 December 2020

Croatia has caught up with the rest of the EU in adopting a national cancer control plan. Sophie Fessl looks at how using EU guidance drawn from experiences of other member states helped them ensure it is relevant, patient-centred, and…

View Post
A silver lining: Could changes forced by the pandemic point to better ways to conduct our clinical trials?
View Post
  • Articles
  • Policy

A silver lining: Could changes forced by the pandemic point to better ways to conduct our clinical trials?

  • Janet Fricker
  • 23 October 2020

Pragmatic adjustments to trial protocols were seen to be essential during the Covid-19 pandemic to avoid trials being abandoned or delayed. Most changes involved reducing the requirements for travelling to centralised trials centres and reducing the level of reporting requirements.…

View Post
Could covid-19 boost interest in drug repurposing in oncology?
View Post
  • Articles
  • Policy

Could covid-19 boost interest in drug repurposing in oncology?

  • Marc Beishon
  • 21 September 2020

Could the frantic search for drugs to treat patients severely affected by the covid-19 virus be a shot in the arm for new cancer treatments? There have been many headlines about repurposed agents, such as the highly debated antimalarial drug…

View Post
On a mission to beat cancer
View Post
  • Articles
  • Policy

On a mission to beat cancer

  • Sophie Fessl
  • 17 July 2020

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind – the words Neil Armstrong pronounced as he completed humankind’s first mission to the moon, will – if the European Commission gets its way – soon be pronounced for other…

View Post
How retractions are helping cancer research
View Post
  • Articles
  • Policy

How retractions are helping cancer research

  • Esther Paniagua
  • 17 March 2020

In 2015, cancer researcher Anil Potti - back then associated with Duke University in Durham, North Carolina - was found guilty of research misconduct by a US federal investigation led by the office for research integrity of the Department of…

View Post

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 4 5 6
search
CancerWorld #105 Download CancerWorld #104 Download CancerWorld #103 Download CancerWorld #102 Download CancerWorld #101 Download or search in Cancerworld archive
Newsletter

Subscribe free to
Cancerworld!

We'll keep you informed of the latest features and news with a fortnightly email

Subscribe now
Latest News
  • A Bold Step into Building Africa’s Cancer Atlas
    • 22 July 2025
  • Cannabis Use is Linked to Increased Mortality in Colon Cancer Patients
    • 22 July 2025
  • How a Brain-Destroying Protein Became Cancer’s Ally: Alpha-Synuclein Emerges as a New Target in Melanoma
    • 4 July 2025
  • CancerWorld #105 (July 2025)
    • 2 July 2025
  • How a Chicken Egg Model Could Transform Pediatric Cancer Treatment in Canada
    • 20 June 2025
Article
  • Empowering Patients in Europe’s New Health Technology Assessment
    • 22 July 2025
  • A Bold Step into Building Africa’s Cancer Atlas
    • 22 July 2025
  • Can Healing and Growth Coexist? Post-Traumatic Transformation in Cancer Patients
    • 22 July 2025
Social

Would you follow us ?

Contents
  • “Moving Mountains with Passion”: The Life and Legacy of Baroness Françoise Meunier
    • 22 July 2025
  • “I’m Here”: The Story of George Kapetanakis
    • 22 July 2025
  • Suheir Rasul: Protecting Human Dignity
    • 4 July 2025
MENU
  • About the Magazine
    • About us
    • Editorial Team
    • Events
    • Archive
    • Contacts
  • Articles
    • Policy
    • Practice Points
    • Delivery of Care
    • Biology basic
    • Medicine
    • Featured
  • Contents
    • News
    • Editorials
    • Interviews to the Expert
    • In the Hot Seat
    • Profiles
    • Obituaries
    • Voices
  • ESO College Corner
Cancerworld Magazine
  • About us
  • Articles
  • Media Corner
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy

Cancerworld is published by OncoDaily (P53 Inc.) | Mailing Address: 867 Boylston st, 5th floor, Ste 1094 Boston, MA 02116, United States | [email protected]

Archivio Cancerworld

Input your search keywords and press Enter.