Practice Points
Cervical cancer: Rebuilding a nation’s broken trust in their screening service
Ireland’s cervical cancer screening programme ‘CervicalCheck’ has been under the microscope since April 2018, when it was revealed that some women diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer were not told that…
Molecular diagnostics and NGS in the clinic: where are we and where do we need to go?
The development of next generation sequencing (NGS) has been a game changer for our understanding of genetics, and in turn for many aspects of biomedicine. This includes cancer, where it…
Covid-19 pandemic: information and resources to support the cancer care community
As soon as the first analysis of the risk for severe COVID-19 in patients with cancer was published online in Lancet Oncology on February 14th, 2020, it emerged that these…
Delivering the best cancer care during the pandemic
Key messages from the e-ESO faculty On March 18, the European School of Oncology presented an interactive webinar on how to do this, drawing on the limited data available, the…
Tackling resistance to anti-EGFR therapies, from challenges to re-challenge
Since their first approval and use, more than 15 years ago, inhibitors of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFRi) have revolutionized the clinical practice and the prognosis for cancer patients,…