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Janet Fricker is a medical writer specialising in oncology and cardiology. After researching articles for Cancerworld she runs, swims, and eats porridge.
Building back cancer services after Covid-19: European Cancer Organisation plan
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Building back cancer services after Covid-19: European Cancer Organisation plan

  • Janet Fricker
  • 2 December 2020

The European Cancer Organisation has proposed seven urgent recommendations to ‘build back cancer services better’ after the ongoing challenges resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. ‘The Impact of COVID-19 on Cancer in Europe’, launched during the European Cancer Summit on the…

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Prolonged ADT use in prostate cancer increases CV mortality: A need for cardiovascular protection
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Prolonged ADT use in prostate cancer increases CV mortality: A need for cardiovascular protection

  • Janet Fricker
  • 27 November 2020

Prolonged androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) exposure was found to be associated with reduced cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and increased cardiovascular (CV) mortality. The study, published in JACC: CardioOncology, emphasizes the need to consider CV surveillance and risk modification for men both…

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Serious patient-reported outcomes data gap in immunotherapy trials revealed
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Serious patient-reported outcomes data gap in immunotherapy trials revealed

  • Janet Fricker
  • 24 November 2020

A review of trials of immunotherapy agents revealed a ‘considerable gap’ in the use of patient reported outcomes (PROs), reports a recent study. The data analysis study found PROs were included in less than half of the 44 immunotherapy trials…

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Machine learning mortality predictions boost end-of-life conversations
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Machine learning mortality predictions boost end-of-life conversations

  • Janet Fricker
  • 18 November 2020

A study of the use of machine learning to predict the risk of dying within six months, combined with behavioural nudges, led to increased serious illness conversations between oncologists and cancer patients. “To our knowledge, this is one of the…

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Two studies provide ‘building blocks’ for future advances in pancreatic cancer
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Two studies provide ‘building blocks’ for future advances in pancreatic cancer

  • Janet Fricker
  • 12 November 2020

Two recently published studies have provided insights into new ways of tackling pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDACs), a cancer where survival outcomes have made little progress in the past few decades. Approximately 95% of pancreatic malignancies are pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDACs),…

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Roundtable ‘grasps nettle’ on European cancer inequalities
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Roundtable ‘grasps nettle’ on European cancer inequalities

  • Janet Fricker
  • 6 November 2020

Improving treatment of older patients and closing the East−West divide were the focus of a Community 365 Roundtable on Inequalities organised by the European Cancer Organisation on the 14th October. This event was the first of a series of Community…

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Gut microbiome positively influences abiraterone response in prostate cancer
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Gut microbiome positively influences abiraterone response in prostate cancer

  • Janet Fricker
  • 5 November 2020

Abiraterone acetate (AA), an agent used in castrate-resistant prostate cancer, promotes a shift towards health-associated, anti-inflammatory gut commensal bacteria, finds a study in Nature Communications. “These findings clearly demonstrate that the gut microbiome is playing a role in treatment response,”…

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

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Four steps to eliminating HPV-related cancers: a call for action
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Four steps to eliminating HPV-related cancers: a call for action

  • Janet Fricker
  • 16 October 2020

A new report underlines that vaccination, screening, treatment and public awareness, provide the cornerstone for eliminating cancers linked to the human papillomavirus (HPV) in Europe. The report was published by The European Cancer Organisation, Brussels on 7th October. The report,…

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Cancer deaths fall, health disparities persist, cancer research affected, reports AACR
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Cancer deaths fall, health disparities persist, cancer research affected, reports AACR

  • Janet Fricker
  • 6 October 2020

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual Cancer Progress Report for 2020, published 23 September, portrays a mixed picture. On a positive note, the report features advances in cancer treatment and falls in cancer-related deaths; while on the negative…

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