Delivery of Care

Effective palliative care has become a growing priority in African health services in recent decades. This is partly a result of the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases including cancer – and the sad reality that palliative care is often all…

Efforts to ensure that cancer patients can have children after treatment have been hampered in Poland by the lack of a national fertility service. The costs of fertility preservation – greater than the average Polish salary – have normally had…

It’s hard to remember that, at the time it was introduced in 2008, many questions were raised about whether the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine would be cost effective. In the intervening decade and a half, it has become abundantly clear…

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Moldova has been a key destination for refugees because of its geographical proximity and cultural similarities to Ukraine. Over one million Ukrainian refugees have passed through Moldova and 100,000 are currently…

In a remote, inaccessible and hilly area of the north-east Indian state of Assam, local residents of the Cachar district came together twenty years ago to form the Cachar Cancer Society for cancer prevention, detection and treatment. They felt a…

It all started with a high school friendship. Anna Szołucha, a photographer who specialises in noir-style black-and-white female nudes, read a post by her high school friend Agnieszka Ford on social media. Agnieszka wrote that she was in a medical…

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…

Physicians and cancer services provide better care when they recognise the benefit that complementary therapies can bring to their patients’ mental and physical wellbeing – as well as the potential risks. Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is defined by the…

A new survey of 1,871 people living with cancer in the UK and US has revealed significant differences in the terms that they would like to be used to describe themselves. Descriptive terms such as “victim,” “sufferer” and “cancer stricken”…

A pilot project pooling the procurement of cancer drugs has led to cancer institutes in India saving over USS 116 million – an 82% average reduction on the drugs' reference prices. The results of the pilot project, led by Tata…