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Umberto Veronesi and the European School Of Oncology

The idea of ​​creating a "European School of Oncology" came to Umberto Veronesi in the mid-1970s, when the Americans announced the effective implementation of the strategic plan against cancer signed by President…

Profiles

Henry Rodriguez: driving the next step in precision medicine and international Cancer Moonshot cooperation

Precision cancer medicine aims to improve diagnosis and treatment at the molecular level. Although genomics has influenced what precision medicine encompasses today, research is at a turning point. There is currently a…

In the Hot Seat

Manfred Weber – chair of the European Parliament EPP group

Alberto Costa: How was Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan conceived and designed? Manfred Weber: The European Union is ultimately there to make the lives of Europeans better. For European politicians, this is our…

Interviews to the Expert

Association of steroid use with survival in solid tumours

Interview with Fausto Petrelli, oncology unit, asst Bergamo ovest, Treviglio (Italy). Q.Steroids are commonly used in patients with solid tumours for supportive therapy. Your systematic review and metanalysis recently published in European…

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Bridging the Age Gap in Breast Cancer: A treatment selection tool for the over-70s

Q. Surgery tends to be a bigger issue for older people, and physicians need reliable guidance on who is likely to benefit and who could be harmed. You looked at selection practices…

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World Cancer Day: we commemorate Professor Agim Sallaku

Since 2008, rallies around World Cancer Day on the 4th of February, support collective actions for a healthier world without cancer. The current Covid19 pandemic which placed the medical staff in the…

Interviews to the Expert

Liquid biopsy for early stage lung cancer moves closer

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…

Interviews to the Expert

The cost of cancer in Europe

Interview with Thomas Hofmarcher, health economist, IHE - The Swedish Institute for Health Economics, Lund, Sweden. Q. Which is the origin of your idea of studying the cost of cancer in Europe? Does…

Interviews to the Expert

Cervical cancer: the SENTIX trial

Interview with David Cibula, MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic. Q. Your recent paper in the European Journal of…

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Stella Kyriakides: EU Commissioner for Health

When Stella Kyriakides took on the post of EU Health Commissioner in September 2019, Europe’s cancer community knew they could trust her to fight their cause. Within months she was launching a…