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PSA population screening is back in favour: here’s why

Five years ago, the idea of national screening programmes for prostate cancer had gone cold. The benefits of PSA (prostate specific antigen) blood testing, introduced as a screening tool in the 1980s,…

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Our pathways: advocates provide roadmaps for patients, clinicians and managers

Patient advocates have a collective understanding of the patient pathway, from the first suspicious symptoms to the realities of life as a survivor, that is unrivalled by any professionals. They also understand…

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Berlin pilot project brings precision care to the peripheries

A decade ago, men with metastatic prostate cancer could typically expect to live two to three years. The arrival of new hormone drugs such as abiraterone radically changed the odds, and the…

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Raed Al Dieri: Taking pathology from bit part to key player on the European oncology scene

The man steering the organisation dubbed “the leading force in European pathology” is not one to dwell on the negative. Raed Al Dieri, Director General of the European Society of Pathology (ESP), is an internationalist but also a proud Syrian. He confesses to finding it hard when people ask him about how he feels about […]

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Telling stories about cancer ‒ six award-winning journalists show how it’s done

We often talk about the need to break down ‘silos’ in cancer care – to view treatment, care and research holistically, collaborating around patient needs. Who would have thought that journalists would show clinicians the way? Of all the changes we’ve seen in cancer reporting since the European School of Oncology’s Cancer Journalism Award was […]

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Women make great surgeons, so why is the profession still dominated by men?

Professor Isabel Rubio is a surgeon at the top of her profession. She is Director of Breast Surgery at Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Madrid. She is President-elect of the European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA) and head of public affairs at the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO). And yet, when male surgeons introduce […]