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Beyond the Checkpoint: What Comes After PD-1?

When the first signals of modern immunotherapy began to emerge a little over a decade ago, many of us realised that oncology was about to change forever. I still remember the sense…

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The Other Fight: Confronting Workplace Discrimination Against Cancer Survivors

Workplace discrimination remains one of the most persistent and underrecognized challenges faced by individuals diagnosed with cancer. While advances in treatment have significantly improved survival rates and quality of life, many patients…

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From Oceans to Organs: The Alarming Cancer Risks of Microplastics

Given the global estimate that approximately 9 to 14 million metric tons of plastic enter the oceans yearly—continuing to fragment into microplastics (MPs)—the urgency to understand their potential health effects has escalated.…

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Agents of Mutation: Pathogens as Catalysts of Carcinogenesis

Cancer has traditionally been viewed as a non-communicable disease—one driven by genetic predisposition, environmental exposure, and lifestyle factors. Yet a substantial and increasingly compelling body of epidemiological research has shown that a…

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It’s no longer taboo to suggest that some metastatic breast cancers may be curable

It’s long been clear that, in most patients with metastatic HER-positive breast cancer, adding effective HER2 blockade to cytotoxics can result in very prolonged responses. Janet Fricker reports on the prospective trials…

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Sleep & Cancer: Why Rest Matters More Than You Think?

Difficulty sleeping and disturbed sleep patterns are not uncommon among cancer patients, and alleviating these symptoms has always been integral to good cancer care. Now, mounting evidence of the impact that getting…

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Molecular tumour boards: translating data into tailored therapeutics

Developments in molecular diagnostics are allowing us to capture an extraordinarily detailed picture of the genomic and other molecular changes that characterise a given tumour specimen. But making best use of the…

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Sri Lanka cancer care hit by foreign currency crisis

A shortage of essential cancer drugs caused by financial crisis is threatening to dampen Sri Lanka’s success in treating cancer as part of a free health service. The country is facing its…

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The sunshine hormone: the many wonders of vitamin D

Vitamin D has drawn much scientific interest and media coverage in recent years, and increasingly so in 2020, when a link was found between vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19. This is a…

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Guiding career paths from trainee doctor to oncology leader

“If you want to be an oncologist you have to go through some struggles. First become a medical doctor and then enter a residents’ training in internal medicine and then medical oncology. If you want to do more, you have to organise your own training.” “When you start, for every young doctor it is not […]