New tools improve care for cancers that spread to the brain
Ambitious efforts at University of Virginia Cancer Center, USA, to improve care delivered to patients…
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Black lives also matter in cancer care
It is not biology, but access to health care that is causing Black Non-Hispanic patients…
EBCC-12: New research reveals effects of COVID-19 on breast cancer screening, treatment and care
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries paused their breast cancer screening programmes. A new study,…
ESMO 2020: COVID-19 pandemic halts cancer care and damages oncologists’ wellbeing
Delays and cancellation of cancer treatments and other safety measures undertaken to minimise the risk…
Building capacity for cancer care during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is an opportunity to expand cancer survivorship services by maintaining and building…
Surgeons study guidelines for treating cancer patients during pandemic
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic not only affects patients who have the virus, but strikes…
Changing cancer care, one organoid at a time
A patient-specific tumour organoid platform developed by Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, USA, (WFIRM)…
Improving cancer care in Botswana
It’s one of the scariest things a person could ever hear: “You have cancer.” Every…
Patients’ HIV status should not impact their cancer care
New articles published in CANCER note that there is no medical justification to deny optimal cancer therapy…
People diagnosed with cancer often don’t embrace the term ‘survivor’
Leonard L. Berry, Texas A&M University ; Andrea Flynn, University of San Diego, and Scott…