Oncology

Myeloma UK provides information and support for individuals affected by multiple myeloma. At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Ali Hodge, Advanced Nurse Practitioner for Acute Oncology at The Royal…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Rihannon Skilton, Head of Support Line Services, Tenovus Cancer Care…

Natalie Doyle, MSc, RGN, Nurse Consultant at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, discusses the aims of the United Kingdom Oncology…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Natalie Doyle, MSc, RGN, Nurse Consultant at The Royal Marsden NHS…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Hilary Glen, MbChB, MSc, PhD, FRCP, of the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Toby Talbot, MB BS, of Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro, UK…

Richard Henry, President Elect of the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS), and Teaching Fellow at the School of Nursing and Midwifery…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Tim Anstiss, MB, MEd, D.Occ.Med, MFSEM, of the Academy for Health Coaching…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Richard Berman, MBBS, MRCGP, FRCP, of The Christie NHS Foundation Trust…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Rihannon Skilton, Head of Support Line Services, Tenovus Cancer Care…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Natalie Doyle, MSc, RGN, Nurse Consultant at The Royal Marsden NHS…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Cheryl Vidall, Head of Nursing and Governance at Alcura UK Limited, Alton…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Joanne Upton, Skin Cancer Advanced Nurse Practitioner at The Clatterbridge…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Margaret Oakes, Specialist Counselling Psychologist at Berkshire…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Michelle Taylor, Clinical Nurse Specialist, of The Great Western Hospital…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Michael Mawhinney, doctoral research student, Oxford Brookes University…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Lisa Wells, Macmillan Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist, of…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Andrew Turner, discusses a qualitative study of the self-management needs…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Ali Hodge, Advanced Nurse Practitioner for Acute Oncology at The Royal…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Annie Young, SRN, PhD, Professor of Nursing, University of Warwick…

Martin Wiseman, MD talks about how the environment we live in determines the patterns of cancer across the world. There is now an increasingly large…

Robert Thomas, MbChb, MRCP, MD, FRCR, discusses the results of the Pomi-T clinical trial. The study focused on the effects of Pomi-T on prostate-specific…

Robert Thomas, MbChb, MRCP, MD, FRCR, discusses non-medicinal strategies to help cancer patients cope with cancer therapy side-effects. Prof. Robert…

Robert Thomas, MbChb, MRCP, MD, FRCR, discusses the importance of having a healthy diet for cancer patients. Prof. Robert Thomas suggests that cancer…

At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, which attracts cancer nurses from around the United Kingdom and beyond…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Giuseppe Curigliano, MD, PhD, of Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy, explains that genetic…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Riccardo A. Audisio, MD, FRCS, of the University of Liverpool, St. Helens Teaching Hospital, St. Helens, UK…

Thomas Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD, of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK, discusses the results of clinical trials reported…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, David Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, of the University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO, explains that…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Wolfgang Janni, MD, PhD University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, discusses the interim analysis of the DETECT study…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Giampaolo Bianchini, MD, of the San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Maria De Santis, MD, of the University of Warwick, Warwick, UK, discusses the initial results of ASPIRE-PCa…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Paul Nathan, MB.BS, BSc (Hons), BA, PhD, FRCP, of Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood, UK, discusses a…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Giuseppe Curigliano, MD, PhD, of Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy, discusses molecular subgroups…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Matti Aapro, MD, of Clinique de Genolier, Genolier, Switzerland, describes the European School of Oncology…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Laurence Albiges, MD, of Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, discusses the results of clinical trials…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Johan Vansteenkiste, MD, PhD, of KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, discusses the primary analyses of efficacy…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Grant McArthur, MBBS, BMedSc, PhD, FRACP, of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Eric Pujade-Lauraine, MD, PhD, of Université Paris Descartes, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris…

Multigene assays may provide clinically complementary information to classic clinicopathological tumour features, such as tumour size and grade, in…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Dirk Schadendorf, MD, PhD, of Universitätsklinikum Essen, Essen, Germany, discusses the advances in the…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Benjamin Besse, MD, PhD, of Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, discusses BIRCH, a phase 2, single…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Bartomeu Massuti, MD, of Hospital General de Alicante, Alicante, Spain, discusses the Spanish Lung Cancer…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Georgina Long, BSc, PhD, MBBS, FRACP, of The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, discusses the safety…

Chris Carrigan of the National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN), discusses the uses of the enormous amount of data collected by NHS on a daily basis…

Karen Kennedy, PhD, Director of the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI), gives an overview of the 2015 NCRI Cancer Conference. The conference…

Kristian Helin, PhD gives an overview of his talk on epigenetic targets in cancer presented at the 2015 National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer…

Robert Coleman, MBBS, MD, FRCP, a trustee of Breast Cancer Now, discusses the goals of the newly formed charity that resulted from the combination of…

Kevin Brindle, PhD gives an overview of his talk at the 2015 National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference, where he described a new…

Miriam Johnson, MD gives an overview of a session at at the 2015 National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference, that focuses on the…

Paolo Boffetta, MD, MPH gives an overview of his talk at the 2015 National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference. In his talk he discusses…

Rebecca Fitzgerald, MD, FAAD gives an overview of a session presented at the 2015 National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference, focusing…

Tim Hunt, FRS, FMedSci describes the path that led him to identify cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK), along with colleagues Paul Nurse and Leland Hartwell…

Jack Cuzick, PhD, FMedSci, FRCP(hon), of the Queen Mary University of London, UK gives an overview of the session ‘Prevention is better than cure’…

In the session ” Tumour: stroma interactions” presented at the 2015 National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference, the importance of…

Clare Turnbull, MD, PhD, gives an overview of her talk at the 2015 National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference, where the Genomics…

Stacey Kenfield, DSc gives an overview of her talk at the 2015 National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference. Dr Kenfield talks about how…

At the 2015 National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference, Justin Webb talks about the initiatives Macmillan Cancer Support is implementing…

At the 2015 National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference, Justin Webb gives an overview of a new Macmillan Cancer Support initiative aimed…

Robert Thomas, MbChb, MRCP, MD, FRCR, gives an overview of the session “Physical activity – the panacea?” at the 2015 National Cancer Research Institute…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Giampaolo Bianchini, MD, of the San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy…

Charles Swanton, FRCP, BSc, PhD, of The Francis Crick Institute and Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK, discusses topics covered…

At the 2015 National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference, Alberto Bardelli, PhD talks about clonal evolution in colorectal cancer. He also…

James Larkin, MD, PhD gives an update on the clinical trial CheckMate 067, a phase 3 study of Nivolumab or Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab versus Ipilimumab…

Dorothy Yang gives an overview of a study assessing the physical activity levels and barriers to exercise referral among patients with cancer, at the…

Charles Swanton, FRCP, BSc, PhD, of The Francis Crick Institute and Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK, gives an overview of the…

Charles Swanton, FRCP, BSc, PhD, of The Francis Crick Institute and Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK, gives an overview of the…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, André Robidoux, MD, FRCSC, of Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, discusses…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, André Robidoux, MD, FRCSC, of Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, discusses…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Charles Swanton, FRCP, BSc, PhD, of The Francis Crick Institute and Cancer Research UK London Research…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Charles Swanton, FRCP, BSc, PhD, of The Francis Crick Institute and Cancer Research UK London Research…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Hendrik-Tobias Arkenau, MD, PhD, of Sarah Cannon Research Institute UK, London, UK, discusses Patient…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Riccardo A. Audisio, MD, FRCS, of the University of Liverpool, St. Helens Teaching Hospital, St. Helens, UK…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Keith M. Kerr, BSc, MB, ChB, FRCPath, FRCPE, of the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, discusses the…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Charles Swanton, FRCP, BSc, PhD, of The Francis Crick Institute and Cancer Research UK London Research…

European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC) is the largest European cancer patients’ umbrella organisation, representing 365 patient organisations in 40…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Mark Lawler, PhD, of Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK, Richard Sullivan, MD, PhD, of King’s College…

In patients with early stage breast cancer, there is a need to identify prognostic factors to determine the risk of recurrence and predictive factors to…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Hendrik-Tobias Arkenau, MD, PhD, of Sarah Cannon Research Institute UK, London, UK, discusses a first-in…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Giorgio V. Scagliotti, MD, PhD, of the University of Turin, Turin, Italy, discusses the exploratory analysis…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Peter Naredi, MD, PhD, of the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, chairs a news briefing with…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Neal Shore, MD, FACS, of Carolina Urologic Research Center, Myrtle Beach, SC, discusses the first interim…

There is a growing divide in cancer healthcare and survivorship between populations across Europe. European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC), the largest…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Clifford A. Hudis, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, discusses the low-risk…

European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC), the largest European cancer patients’ umbrella organisation, presented the paper, ‘Europe of Disparities in…

A meta-analysis was conducted to include 12 randomised trials and a total of 1,231 breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, with or without…

Genomic interventions may improve disease-risk stratification and patient-tailored treatment. At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, John Crown, MD…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, John Crown, MD, MBA, of St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, discusses the low-risk registry…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Hendrik-Tobias Arkenau, MD, PhD, of Sarah Cannon Research Institute UK, London, UK, discusses a phase 1b…

Results from a study in The Netherlands involving 13,715 patients showed that aspirin use after a cancer diagnosis significantly improved overall…

Updated results from the phase 3 COMBI-v trial of a combination of dabrafenib and trametinib for the first-line treatment of patients with…

NETTER-1, a phase 3 clinical trial, evaluated Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRT) with 177Lu-DOTATATE in patients with Grade 1–2 metastatic…

RADIANT-4, a placebo-controlled, double-blind, phase 3 clinical trial conducted in centres in 13 European countries, Korea, Japan, Canada, and the US…

The European Society for Paediatric Oncology (SIOP Europe or SIOPE), is a pan-European organisation that represents professionals working in the field…

At the European Cancer Congress (ECC) 2015, Martine Piccart, MD, PhD, of Université Libre de Bruxelles and Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium…

CheckMate 025, a phase 3 clinical trial, compared the anti-programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) antibody, nivolumab, with the standard treatment…

Comparisons of cancer patients’ survival and care in Europe up to 2007 showed that although more patients are surviving for at least five years after…

METEOR, a phase 3 clinical trial, compared cabozantinib with everolimus for the treatment of patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

The Oncotype DX® Breast Cancer Assay is a 21-gene assay that provides a Recurrence Score® (RS), which is divided into low-, intermediate- and high-risk…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Neal Shore, MD, FACS, of Atlantic Urology Clinics, Myrtle Beach, SC…

Genomic tests, such as the Oncotype DX® Breast Cancer Assay, provide results that quantify recurrence risk and identify patients who are likely or…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Thomas Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD, of Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Harold J. Burstein, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Hope S. Rugo, MD, of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Mohammed Jaloudi, MD, of Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, discusses…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Joseph Gligorov, MD, PhD, of Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, discusses some…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Harold J. Burstein, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Mohammed Jaloudi, MD, of Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, discusses…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Hope S. Rugo, MD, of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Harold J. Burstein, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Joseph Gligorov, MD, PhD, of Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, discusses the…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Neal Shore, MD, FACS, of Atlantic Urology Clinics, Myrtle Beach, SC, discusses…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Julie M. Vose, MD, MBA, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Neal Shore, MD, FACS, of Atlantic Urology Clinics, Myrtle Beach, SC, discusses…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Keith Kerr, BSc, MB, ChB, FRCPath, FRCPE, of the University of Aberdeen…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Stephan Stilgenbauer, MD, of Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, reviews the changing…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Jacqueline Barrientos, MD, of North Shore-LIJ Cancer Institute, Lake Success, NY…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Neal Shore, MD, FACS, of Atlantic Urology Clinics, Myrtle Beach, SC, provides…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Paolo A. Ascierto, MD, of Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS “Fondazione G. Pascale…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Karim Fizazi, MD, PhD, of the Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Sagar Lonial, MD, of the Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Caroline Robert, MD, PhD, of Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Joseph R. Mikhael, MD, of Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, discusses the…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Sumanta K. Pal, MD, of City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting Jeremy S. Abramson, MD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Julie M. Vose, MD, MBA, FASCO, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Jacqueline Barrientos, MD, of North Shore-LIJ Cancer Institute, Lake Success…

At the 20th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA), Marek Trněný, MD, PhD, of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, discusses new…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Eleni Efstathiou, MD, PhD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Hyman Muss, MD, of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, provides…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Georgina Long, BSc, PhD, MBBS, FRACP, of the University of Sydney, Sydney…

At the 14th St. Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference 2015, Eleftherios P. Mamounas, MD, of University of Florida Health Cancer Center-Orlando…

At the 14th St. Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference 2015, Masakazu Toi, MD, PhD, of Kyoto University, Japan, explains that there are still only…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Sumanta K. Pal, MD, of City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Ruben A. Mesa, MD, of Mayo Clinic, Arizona, TX, discusses the ongoing PERSIST-2…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Thomas Powles. MBBS, MRCP, MD, of Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Hendrik-Tobias Arkenau, MD, PhD, of Sarah Cannon Research Institute, London, UK…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Karim Fizazi, MD, PhD, of the Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Jacqueline Barrientos, MD, discusses the results of a phase 1b trial that…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Lisa A. Carey, MD, of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Neal Shore, MD, FACS, of Atlantic Urology Clinics, Myrtle Beach, SC, discusses…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Joseph R. Mikhael, MD, of Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, discusses the results of…

At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Jeremy S. Abramson, MD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center…