supportive care

Childhood cancer is considered a success story of modern medicine, with more than 90% of children now surviving long-term in high-income countries, up from just 10% 65 years ago. Yet many children who survive their cancer go on to experience…

The speed of progress in breast cancer – not just survival, but also quality of life and survivorship – has been the envy of the wider cancer community for many decades. The factors contributing to this relative success are many…

The association between cancer treatments and dramatic side effects such as uncontrolled nausea and vomiting retains a powerful hold over public perceptions and parts of the media. Recent decades have seen a big improvement in many of these, partly due…