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Drug repurposing: EU legislative changes could speed up new treatment options
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Drug repurposing: EU legislative changes could speed up new treatment options

  • Sophie Fessl
  • 30 August 2024

The length of time it takes for each new cancer drug to reach the market – and more importantly, the patient – remains a cause of deep frustration particularly among those whose lives depend on accessing new options. Concrete data…

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The voice of the older adult: how to make it count in decisions about their care
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The voice of the older adult: how to make it count in decisions about their care

  • Sophie Fessl
  • 21 March 2024

Involving patients as equal partners in choosing between treatment options is particularly important when there is considerable uncertainty about how the options could affect their survival and quality of life. Such is often the case in treating older patients, who…

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Precision cancer nursing: using the personalised medicine paradigm to improve patient care
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Precision cancer nursing: using the personalised medicine paradigm to improve patient care

  • Sophie Fessl
  • 18 May 2023

Precision medicine is transforming the way we treat cancer. Oncology is evolving from treating purely on the basis of a broad indication to a tailored approach that is based on a tumour’s molecular characteristics, and usually requires complex combinations of…

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A Health Data Space for patients, science, policy and industry: can Europe make it work?
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A Health Data Space for patients, science, policy and industry: can Europe make it work?

  • Sophie Fessl
  • 1 December 2022

The answers to so many pressing questions about cancer, and about how best to diagnose and manage the disease and care for patients, lie waiting to be revealed through analysis of data that is currently spread across tens of thousands…

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Nanotechnology is steadily expanding its many roles in tackling cancer
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Nanotechnology is steadily expanding its many roles in tackling cancer

  • Sophie Fessl
  • 17 November 2022

A nanomedicine, as defined by the US National Institutes of Health, is a “highly specific medical intervention at the molecular scale for curing disease or repairing damaged tissues... ” For regulatory purposes, the term covers products with a size between…

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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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What can we expect from mRNA cancer vaccines?
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What can we expect from mRNA cancer vaccines?

  • Sophie Fessl
  • 13 May 2022

Messenger RNA vaccines turned around Europe’s fight against the Covid pandemic. Less than a year after the first lockdowns were declared, mRNA vaccines got regulatory approval for emergency use, first in people at high-risk from Covid, and later in the…

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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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Chemobrain: it’s real, it’s troublesome and it deserves more attention
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Chemobrain: it’s real, it’s troublesome and it deserves more attention

  • Sophie Fessl
  • 4 February 2022

Fiona Henderson was part way through her psychology degree when she received her breast cancer diagnosis. Right after treatments finished, she returned to her studies – initially without a problem. “Three or four months later, I really struggled. I was…

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Informal carers play a key role in cancer care: they need and deserve more support
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Informal carers play a key role in cancer care: they need and deserve more support

  • Sophie Fessl
  • 10 December 2021

What is it worth to patients to have someone they can rely on to provide emotional support and talk things through, help them get to and from appointments, remind them about what medicines to take and when, help them eat…

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