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ESMO launches initiative to tackle burnout in oncology healthcare professionals

The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) is calling on the oncology community to commit to improving the wellbeing of the cancer workforce. In a paper published in ESMO Open, 10 September,…

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Reversing the rising trend in prostate cancer mortality in Poland

Between 2015 and 2020, age-standardised prostate cancer mortality rates rose by an estimated 18% in Poland, reflecting an increase in deaths from 4,876 to 5,748 over that period. This trend was in…

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Tackling the crisis in Europe’s oncology workforce

"We’ve heard politicians saying, ‘It's a time bomb’. No, it's not a time bomb. We see the system is cracking completely right now." Norbert Couespel, senior coordinator of policy research at the…

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Preventing burnout: are we too focused on personal resilience?

Burnout. That short word barely conveys the dispirited cycle of weariness, negativity and powerlessness health staff experience when high aspirations to help and cure are consumed in an unattainable to-do list. “You're…

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The burnout epidemic in oncology, highlights form ASCO 2020

“Burnout is universal and no one is immune. We are all in this together and together we can come up with solutions”. Tara Sanft, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, New Haven (U.S.A.), came to these conclusions in a poster discussion during the (virtual) annual meeting of the American Society of […]