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Detecting Cancer Before It Strikes: The Promise of Combination Early Detection and Interception

For decades, early cancer detection has predominantly relied on organ-specific screening programs—such as mammography, Pap test, or colonoscopy—to detect malignancies as early as possible. While these approaches have indisputably saved lives, they…

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Back on Screen: The Return of Smoking in Films and Its Public Health Implications

May 31 is “World No Tobacco Day” Smoking is one of the major factors for tumors, not only lung cancer. This year’s World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) campaign aims “to reveal the…

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Leave no-one behind

Cancerworld is moving online, which means this will be the last printed version. We’re all sad to see the end of a physical magazine, which gave our readers real pages to turn,…

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Pandemics, War, Reconstruction and the Duty of Medicine and Science

“It is sufficiently obvious that the problems of reconstruction following the war will tax the intelligence and good will of mankind to the utmost. It is also certain that mistakes made during…

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A fair chance for women in oncology: we must all insist on change

Women are under-represented in positions of power and leadership, in scientific and health disciplines across the world. This has been widely recognised for decades, yet efforts to implement the changes required to…

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Returning to ‘normal’ and beating cancer in Europe 2021

An ageing population, environmental factors, infectious agents, and lifestyle changes all add to the rising impact of cancer on our lives. If nothing is done, cancer will soon become the leading cause…

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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…

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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 […]

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Tackling cancer in interesting times

Being Venetian by birth, I am a keen visitor to the Biennale – the contemporary art exhibition that is hosted by the city every two years. In 2019, reflecting this period of tumultuous change, the Biennale adopted the theme: “May You Live in Interesting Times”. The phrase could be interpreted as a wish or a […]