Patients with cancer and COVID-19 who were admitted to hospital had a high case-fatality rate. Unfavourable prognostic factors, including receiving chemotherapy within 4 weeks before symptom onset and male sex, might help clinicians to identify patients at high risk of fatal outcomes.
As genomics centres in Africa prepare to deploy their sequencing capabilities to cancer research, a new WHO report has highlighted an urgent need to accelerate…
A programme launched by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA; Vienna, Austria) to improve radiation oncology care for patients in the Asia–Pacific region has been…
Costs of cancer medicines to the Canadian health system are increasing rapidly. Most funded indications met thresholds for substantial clinical benefit and two-thirds of the…
The burden of cancer is projected to rise exponentially in many parts of the world and represents an impending global health crisis unless we act…
A draft bill to allow medically assisted dying for patients with incurable conditions will be debated by the National Assembly in France on May 27,…
In March, 2024, an Advisory Group of 28 independent scientists from 22 countries met in Lyon, France to recommend priorities for carcinogenicity evaluations by the…
The addition of [177Lu]Lu-PSMA-617 to enzalutamide improved PSA progression-free survival providing evidence of enhanced anticancer activity in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer with risk…
People with cancer have a higher risk of mortality from COVID-19 than those without cancer. Patients younger than 50 years with cancer treatment have the…
