Obituaries

Manfred Wirth: a tribute to a pioneer of urological advancement in Europe

Cancerworld mourns the loss of Professor Manfred Wirth, a leading light in European urology. His remarkable contributions to the field earned him the esteemed Willy Gregoir Medal, marking him as a true…

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In memoriam Louis Denis

We remember with immense fondness Louis Denis, a great urologist and patient advocate, and a warm, funny and kind human being, who died on July 21 2021. Louis was among the ‘founding…

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Solange Peters: ESMO President

The second woman ever to hold the ESMO presidency, Solange Peters brings to the role impressive clinical and research experience in lung cancer, one of the most challenging and fast-moving areas of oncology. Cancer World asked her about how ESMO is adapting to meet the needs of oncologists in today’s complex and rapidly changing clinical […]

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The burden of thyroid cancer increases worldwide

The global burden of thyroid cancer is increasing worldwide, according to a cross-sectional study with data from 195 countries just published in Jama Network Open. The study, by Jun Lyu and colleagues from the Jinan University in Guangzhou, China, evaluated the burden and variation trends of thyroid cancer between 1990 and 2017 at the global, […]

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AACR: cancer vaccine combination shows clinical activity in advanced solid tumors

According to an industry-funded, preliminary clinical trial presented at the AACR Virtual Annual Meeting currently underway, a personalized cancer vaccine in combination with the PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab appears to be well tolerated and to show modest clinical benefit in patients with advanced solid malignancies. “Many cancers are able to successfully avoid the immune system, and […]

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European heavy weights share their wisdom on how to deal with COVID-19 and cancer

The consortium Cancer Core Europe has collected, elaborated and shared the steps top experts have taken, while scientific evidence is still in the making Several top cancer centres from all around Europe have just published the results of their in-depth analysis of the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, that imposes a new way of […]

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Delivering the best cancer care during the pandemic

Key messages from the e-ESO faculty On March 18, the European School of Oncology presented an interactive webinar on how to do this, drawing on the limited data available, the lessons from the Italian experience, and basic principles of good cancer care. The webinar on The Impact of Coronavirus on Oncological Care (18 March 2020) […]

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AACR calls on US Congress to take quick action against COVID-19

The Board of Directors of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) wrote to the members of the US Congress urging them to act quickly to overcome the COVID-19  pandemic: «Time is of the essence, and we call on you and your colleagues in Congress to move swiftly forward to take the following steps to […]

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The ABC Global Alliance launch a Global campaign to raise awareness about advanced breast cancer

There are over two million new cases of breast cancer a year in the world and 0.6 million deaths. About a third of all early breast cancer cases will become metastatic even with the best care, and the average overall survival for these patients is around three years. The ABC Global Alliance, a multi-stakeholder platform […]

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COVID-19: Cancer World editor and immunologist Adriana Albini explains how it works and how researchers are hoping to tame it

International collaboration, data sharing and investing in research is how we’ll tame the COVID-19 virus, explains Cancer World editor Adriana Albini. An immunologist now on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Cancer Research, Albini was part of the huge and successful international research effort to tame the HIV epidemic in the 1990s. […]