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Using telemedicine in cancer care for environmental and public health benefit

Telemedicine, in addition to patient convenience, offers the environmental benefit of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with knock-on benefits for people with chronic conditions. The study, presented at the annual meeting of the…

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In a remote corner of India, a cancer centre is showing what can be achieved with technology and compassion

In a remote, inaccessible and hilly area of the north-east Indian state of Assam, local residents of the Cachar district came together twenty years ago to form the Cachar Cancer Society for…

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India’s Lung Connect shows value of online cancer support in low-income settings

It was April 2020. Just a few weeks earlier, India had imposed a national lockdown – among the harshest in the world. Ramkrishna Bhadhury, 44, a farmer from a small village in…

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Crisis in the Ukraine: we can help by doing what we do best

As the conflict in the Ukraine enters its second week, we in the cancer community are trying to work out how best we can help patients and their families ‒ those who…

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After Covid: AACR call to action to improve cancer care

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has issued ‘a call to action’ to build on lessons learnt from Covid-19 to modernize cancer patient care. The ‘ACCR Report on the Impact of…

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A silver lining: Could changes forced by the pandemic point to better ways to conduct our clinical trials?

Pragmatic adjustments to trial protocols were seen to be essential during the Covid-19 pandemic to avoid trials being abandoned or delayed. Most changes involved reducing the requirements for travelling to centralised trials centres and reducing the level of reporting requirements. These measures were agreed between trial sponsors, regulators, contract research organisations (CROs) and trial centres […]