2016 editions
- December 2016
Joao Incio on mechanisms to explain why obesity promotes cancer. - November 2016
Mike Stratton on how mutational changes in a cancer genome can point to the cause of the cancer. - October 2016
Ruth Muschel on a new target for treatments for colorectal cancer. - September 2016
Freddie Hamdy on the effectiveness of treatments for prostate cancer. - August 2016
Moshe Oren discusses the effects of the microenvironment on cancer cells. - July 2016
Richard Gilbertson on the 'bad luck hypothesis' for the cause of cancer. - June 2016
Key advances in clinical trials. - May 2016
Mark Lemmon on the underlying biochemistry of cancer. - April 2016
Roger Stupp on using alternating electric fields as treatment. - March 2016
Charlotte Vrinten on public perception of deaths from cancer. - February 2016
Guillermo Garcia-Manero on myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). - December 2015/January 2016
Nazneen Rahman on germline genetic screening in ovarian cancer.
EJC News Focus – March 2016
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Is cancer a good way to die?
When the former editor-in-chief of the BMJ, Richard Smith, wrote in a blog that 'cancer is the best death', there was an outcry in the press. His comments were seen as misguided, insensitive and highly offensive to cancer patients and their families.
But at University College London, Charlotte Vrinten and the late Jane Wardle wondered how many middle-aged and older people in the general population might in fact agree with Richard Smith. They conducted a survey examining public perceptions of deaths from cancer compared with those from heart disease (REFERENCE).
The findings were surprising. In this month's EJC News Focus, Charlotte Vrinten outlines the implications to Helen Saul.