prevention

Interview with Christian Rolfo, MD, PhD, MBA, Dr.h.c. director of the Thoracic Medical Oncology and the Early Clinical Trials and Experimental Therapeutics Research Program investigator at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center. Q. Your article…

With the 2020 Nobel Prize going to three scientists who led on the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, Adriana Albini acknowledges the valuable contributions that these and other virologists have made over many decades to advancing our understanding of…

‘Tackling cancer in interesting times’ was the theme of my first Editorial for Cancer World. I wrote that at the start of February this year, at a time when Europe remained largely oblivious to the implications of a new virus…

A 20-year follow-up of the two Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) hormone replacement studies found that, among postmenopausal women with prior hysterectomy, use of oestrogen in comparison to placebo was associated with lower breast cancer incidence and mortality, while among those…

Between 1990 and 2017 the incidence of primary liver cancer (PLC) globally decreased in younger (<30 years) and middle-aged (30-50 years), while increasing in older people (>60 years). Primary prevention strategies and changes in the lifestyle could be mentioned as…

Recommended leisure-time physical activity is associated with a lower risk of 7 types of cancer, according to a new study published on Journal of Clinical Oncology. «In the past decade, our knowledge of the number of cancers linked to physical…