Articles

Not too little, not too much… a lesson for cancer prevention from ancient civilisations 

“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” This quotation from…

Obituaries

Giorgio Parmiani: Cancer immunology looses a mentor and a pioneer

I am writing a note in tribute to one of our oncology research leaders, who has just left us: Giorgio Parmiani – a pioneer in immunology. The scientific community mourns him. Parmiani…

Articles

Natural killers: a new tactical unit joins the cancer immunotherapy brigade

There was a time when all that oncologists treating solid tumours needed to know about leukocytes was how to measure the damage that cytotoxic drugs inflicted on their patients’ white blood cell…

Obituaries

Gordon McVie 1945–2021: a lifetime dedicated to defeating cancer

Gordon McVie passed away on January 20th after a lifetime of pioneering contributions to the cause of defeating cancer: as clinician, researcher, manager, advocate and educator. He was a formidable presence on…

Articles

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…

Editorials

Adriana Albini, editor in chief, presents Cancer World issue 89

Editor Adriana Albini talks readers through the stories we’ve selected for our Winter print issue. They cover a wide range of topics, but are really interested only in one thing: how do…

Articles

Thank you virologists! – Nobel Prize spotlights virus-associated cancers

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…

Editorials

These COVID days

‘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 that had been wreaking havoc in parts of China. Within weeks, the spread of the […]

Articles

Malignant: Insights into the process of metastasis and how we can stop it

Why and how do cancer cells travel from their original site to seed new tumours elsewhere in the body, and what can be done to stop them? A series of presentations at the virtual June 2020 annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) showcased some of the fascinating insights that are helping […]

News

Night-shift work and breast cancer risk: potential biological mechanism identified

Is night-shift work a risk factor for breast cancer? Experimental research just published in Nature Communications gives the molecular basis for asserting that it may well be. Researchers at Paris-Saclay University, with colleagues from Inserm and Inrae, studied the association between night work and increased tumour aggressiveness. They created a simulated jet-lag situation for mice […]