After increasing for more than 25 years, lung cancer death rates are finally levelling off among women in European Union (EU) countries apart from Spain, according to predictions of mortality rates from the disease for 2026. In the UK, death rates from lung cancer have been falling among women for several years, although from a […]
Category: Cancer
AI model identifies how every country can improve its cancer outcomes
For the first time, researchers have used machine learning – a type of artificial intelligence (AI) – to identify the most important drivers of cancer survival in nearly all the countries in the world. The study, which is published in the leading cancer journal Annals of Oncology [1], provides information on which improvements or policy […]
Policymakers around the world face difficult choices on funding new drugs for advanced breast cancer
Is unequal access to the best treatments inevitable? Lisbon, Portugal: Patients living with advanced breast cancer (ABC) have many new treatment options available to them, but these new drugs are very expensive and may lead to further inequalities in access to the best care. This will happen if the existing model for developing and financing […]
Supervised exercise improves strength and physical performance in patients with advanced breast cancer
Lisbon, Portugal: Aerobic and resistance exercise can significantly improve physical performance in patients living with metastatic breast cancer according to new results presented at the Advanced Breast Cancer Eighth International Consensus Conference (ABC8). Anne May, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology of Cancer Survivorship at the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht and the Netherlands Cancer Institute, The […]
Advanced breast cancer patients living longer thanks to improvements in treatment and care
Lisbon, Portugal: People diagnosed with advanced breast cancer in 2025 can expect to live for an extra six or seven months, compared to the average survival time for patients diagnosed in 2011, according to a major study of patient data in the US presented at the Advanced Breast Cancer Eighth International Consensus Conference (ABC8). [1] […]
First global survey highlights challenges faced by young women with advanced breast cancer
Nearly half have children aged under 18 years, and many experience hardship Lisbon, Portugal: Nearly half of all women aged younger than 40 who live with advanced breast cancer have children under the age of 18, according to the first global survey to investigate the challenges these women face. Results from the survey were presented […]
European regulation needed to prevent the birth of children with inherited cancer-causing genetic mutation after sperm donation
Milan, Italy: A case in which a sperm donor was later found to be carrying a cancer-causing pathogenic variant in his gametes has highlighted the problems of regulating gamete donation at European and international level, the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics will hear on Saturday. Dr Edwige Kasper, a specialist in […]
A healthy diet in childhood is linked to starting menstrual periods later, regardless of BMI or height
First study to link certain diets to age of menarche Eating a healthy diet as a child is linked to girls having their first menstrual period at an older age than those who consumed a less healthy diet, according to a new study published in Human Reproduction [1], one of the world’s leading reproductive medicine […]
Breast cancer death rates will rise in elderly EU patients but fall for all other ages
Experts predict death rates from all cancers for the EU and UK for 2025 Death rates from breast cancer will fall in 2025 in every age group in the EU and the UK apart from in EU patients aged 80 years and older. In these older patients, overall mortality rates from the disease are predicted […]
Scientists create cancer patients’ ‘digital twins’ to predict how well treatments may work
Barcelona, Spain: Researchers have shown that they can accurately re-create clinical trials of new treatments using ‘digital twins’ of real cancer patients. The technology, called FarrSight®-Twin, which is based on algorithms used by astrophysicists to discover black holes, will be presented at the 36th EORTC-NCI-AACR [1] Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Barcelona, […]