ecancermedicalscience Blog RSS Feedhttp://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/This RSS feed lets you know when blog posts are added to the ecancermedicalscience website.dev@2cs.com;kelly@brandcastmedia.com;linda.cairns@ifom-ieo-campus.it;gordon.mcvie@ieo.it;jonathan@ecancermedicalscience.com;en<![CDATA[EuroScience Open Forum, Turin, 2010]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=98Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The IFOM-IEO campus and the ch]]><![CDATA[Open access publishing - the latest initiatives]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=97Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTecancer Managing Director, Professor Gordon McVie, gives his views on open access publishing and the latest OA initiatives. Watch the vide]]><![CDATA[EACR 21st Workshop on Grant Opportunities: Marie Curie Actions from Europe to the world and back]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=96Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTAfter four full days devoted to genomics, epigenomics and other kinds of -omics, together with the role of environment and microenvironment in canc]]><![CDATA[EACR 21: Mina Bissell and the Role of the Microenvironment in Cancer]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=95Tue, 6 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTNot only Cancer Genomes: Part 3
 

The AIRC Plenary Lecture on &]]><![CDATA[EACR 21: The importance of underlying assumptions: Duncan Odom and Evolution of Genome Regulation]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=94Fri, 2 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTAssumptions and premises are of fundamental importance when making inferences. We often discuss them -if at all- just the once, and afterwards take]]><![CDATA[EACR 21: GeneSapiens and the importance of transcription in cancer]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=93Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTNot only cancer genome: Part 2

At April's AACR meeting, NIH Director Francis Collins stres]]><![CDATA[EACR 21: The 1,600 methylome project and the importance of the epigenome in cancer]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=92Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTNot only cancer genome: Part 1

You may have heard about the 1,000 Genomes Project*, an int]]><![CDATA[EACR 21: Not only telomere shortening: DNA damage, senescence and ageing]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=91Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT
We are used to thinking that our cells will try every attempt to repair DNA damage, and escape the apoptosis fate that awaits them if they do]]><![CDATA[EHA 2010 Ageism in oncology: are elderly cancer patients getting the treatment they deserve?]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=90Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTOver 50% of newly diagnosed cancers occur in the over 65s and the percentage of this population is steadily increasing, with an estimated 30% of th]]><![CDATA[The 'Dandelion' problem: IFN-a, imatinib and reactivation of dormancy]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=89Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTAndreas Trumpp keynote lecture at the International PhD students meeting in Milan

As dandelions represent a problem for t]]><![CDATA[EHA press briefing: Lymphoma and Leukaemia]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=88Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTPress briefing

At the press breifing on June 11th at the EHA meeting in Barcelona, two exciting developments were present]]><![CDATA[Comparative cost-effectiveness analysis for making decisions about end-of-life cancer treatment]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=87Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT5th Annual International Bioethics Conference, Harvard University, April 22-23, 2010

]]><![CDATA[AACR 2010: 'Inglourious Basterds' and the clinical relevance of dormant tumour cells]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=86Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT 

"If one makes a movie on WW II changing how it ended, that does not change the outcome of WW II". With these words George W. Sledge ]]><![CDATA[AACR 2010: Cancer genetics: Looking back before looking forward]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=85Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTBert Vogelstein: "What we have learned from cancer genetics research should influence future cancer thera]]><![CDATA[AACR 2010: You need to make the case for your research]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=84Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT
The Head of National Institute of Health addresses the 101st AACR Meeting

 

]]><![CDATA[AACR 2010: Volcanic ash and the rhetoric of cancer: Opening Ceremony and Award Presentation]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=83Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTAmerican Association for Cancer Research annual meeting gets underway despite Iceland's best efforts<![CDATA[AACR 2010: The second wave of synthetic lethality]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=82Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTProf Alan Ashworth updates on the phenomenon of synthetic lethality

BATTLE trial personalises lung cancer therapy

Clinical trial acronyms are not chosen by]]><![CDATA[Oral cancer in Malaysia]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=80Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT
Cancer of the oral cavity is the sixth most common malignancy worldwide, with over 400,000 new cases diagnosed annually, and its incidence is]]><![CDATA[Sir James Black, the passing of a great man]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=79Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTSir J]]><![CDATA[Counting the carbon cost of cancer care, 5th March 2010]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=78Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTGood to see the NHS leading the climate change cause as the UK’s biggest area of care limbers up to do its bit for the future.

An initiat]]><![CDATA[Cuban cancer immunotherapy]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=77Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTIf there is one aspect of the policy of Castro’s Cuba that has attracted almost universal worldwide approval, it is its free, publicly funded healt]]><![CDATA[NO SMOKING DAY]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=76Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTThis week featured No Smoking Day in the UK. It is difficult to judge if the effort put in to raising awareness about the dangers of smoking has ha]]><![CDATA[Weekly Review of oncology literature compiled by Giuseppe Curigliano, Division of Medical Oncology, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=75Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTComparative Effectiveness of Minimally Invasive vs Open Radical Prostatectomy
<![CDATA[Robotic surgery - time to reassess?]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=74Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTRobotic surgery for prostate cancer has taken off to the dismay of those stuffy academics who think randomised trials are the only gateway to accep]]><![CDATA[Diagnostic pathology - the way ahead]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=73Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTIt's a worrying paradox that just as molecular pathology is transforming patient management, recruitment to pathology jobs is slowing down. Patholo]]><![CDATA[Weekly Review of oncology literature compiled by Giuseppe Curigliano, Division of Medical Oncology, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=72Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTExpression of androgen receptors in primary breast cancer
S. Park ]]><![CDATA[Castration resistant prostate cancer]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=71Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTAnother bit of dogma bites the dust….. “Castration resistant prostate cancer”
I don’t use the word paradigm, as I can’t be sure of the spell]]><![CDATA[Weekly Review of oncology literature compiled by Giuseppe Curigliano, Division of Medical Oncology, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=70Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTNeratinib, an Irreversible ErbB Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor, in Patients With Advanced ErbB2-Positive Breast Cancer<![CDATA[Can the reputation of the medical community recover?]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=69Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTIt's difficult to recall a worst time for the reputations of scientists, medicine, government health departments, the WHO and the media, intertwine]]><![CDATA[What is the future for medical publishing?]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=68Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTDr Richard Smith, former Editor of the British Medical Journal, was invited to give a presentation, by MedComms Networking in Oxford on Wednesday 1]]><![CDATA[Stem cells and cancer drug discovery]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=67Tue, 2 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTStem cells are defined as those "generalist" cells that are uniquely capable both of self-replicating through mitotic division and of differentiati]]><![CDATA[The UK Cancer Reform Strategy - asessing the impact so far and next steps]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=66Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT26th January 2010, BMA House, London

Following the launch of the Cancer Reform Stra]]><![CDATA[Genesis conference highlights innovative UK cancer research]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=64Wed, 6 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMTThe high-profile Genesis conference is held in London each December to showcase the best of the UK’s research in biotechnology and provide opportun]]><![CDATA[Crucial differences between cancer and normal stem cells]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=63Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMTThe traditional model of a tumour as a homogenous mass of abnormal cells has now largely been replaced by the ]]><![CDATA[Credentialing biomarkers in early phase clinical trials]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=62Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTCredentialing biomarkers in early phase clinical trials

 

The “Proof of Concept Clinical Trial Design” se]]><![CDATA[Predictive biomarkers and lessons from targeted drug resistance in prostate cancer]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=61Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT 

Charles Sawyers (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA), opened the AACR-NCI-EORTC session on drug resistance ]]><![CDATA[Cellular reprogramming: clues to establishing, and targeting, the cancer epigenome.]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=60Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTThe VI plenary session of Wednesday, November 18, at the AACR-NCI-EORTC conference in Boston, was chaired by Peter A. Hones (USC/Norris Comprehensi]]><![CDATA[Metformin out of context: an example of paradigm shift in the drug development process?]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=59Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT 

Bernardo Bonanni of the European Institute of Oncology (IEO) in Milan is one of those investigators who are trying out different s]]><![CDATA[NCRI 2009: Positron Emission Tomography]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=58Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT 

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a relatively new imaging technique that is increasingly used in oncology. It involves introd]]><![CDATA[Barret's Oesophagus: The Latest]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=57Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTBarrett's Metaplasia Meeting

17th-18th September 2009, Universit]]><![CDATA['A Hole in the Wall' Camps and other initiatives to erase the 'stigma' of cancer]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=56Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMTIn their 1979 famous song entitled “Another brick in the wall”, Pink Floyd protested against the walls of rigid school]]><![CDATA[A brave new way to fund cancer research. Grant System Leads Cancer Researchers to Play It Safe]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=54Sat, 5 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMTIt is time to think different, forty years of cancer funding have produced disappointing results overall. This is a common feeling in the cancer co]]><![CDATA[A claim for physician-scientist training in Europe]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=53Sat, 5 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMTWhile everybody is talking about translational research, Europe is just ignoring the issue of training translational researchers. Oversea, despite ]]><![CDATA[A Problem with Screening?]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=52Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT“Cancer screening programs are about mass populations, but we make decisions as individuals”.

The implications of this statement for]]><![CDATA[Gender Specific Oncology]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=51Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMTSome of the most prevalent cancers are those that are specific to – or, in the case of breast cancer, almost specific to – one or other of the gend]]><![CDATA["Enhancing Knowledge, Promoting Quality" – ICCN 2010]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=50Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMTThe International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care (ISNCC) is pleased to announce that its 16th International Conference on Cancer Nursing (ICCN), ]]><![CDATA[Bubbles of optimism from ASCO]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=48Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMTIt is refreshing to come from one of the big meetings on cancer with optimism and faith in the future relevance of our translational research effor]]><![CDATA[Institute of Cancer Research Centenary Conference 2009]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=47Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMTFrom Genes to Drugs

The UK’s Institute of Cancer Research is celebrating its centenary ]]><![CDATA[Cancer care: underplayed or overlooked?]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=46Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMTAs a breast cancer patient I wanted to write a book that was relevant for both cancer professionals and patients. As Prof McVie commented when he r]]><![CDATA[Improving cancer care in Poland]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=45Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMTCancer is responsible for much of the health differential that still exists between eastern and western Europe. Citizens of former communist countr]]><![CDATA[A term for a group of oncologists]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=38Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTBrussels is buzzing with oncologists and cancer meetings. I counted six, and attended three. Not a bad average.Oncotourism is widely used as a scur]]><![CDATA[Surgery under-appreciated in cancer care?]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=37Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTIt is common knowledge that the three most important approaches to cancer treatment are surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Of these, surgery i]]><![CDATA[ESGO 2009 Gynaecological Cancer Meeting]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=36Wed, 4 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMTImproving outcomes for patients; communicating research and care


Gynaecological cancers are the world’s fourth l]]><![CDATA[Best of Oncology 2008, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=35Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
An astonishing 1500 oncologists and cancer nurses are attending a three day update meeting , in a very crowded Jeddah, crowded because half]]><![CDATA[A new era of engagement]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=34Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT 

On February 04th 2009 a year long Working Party convened by the Royal College of Physicians in the UK came to some conclusions abo]]><![CDATA[VIBevents Molecular Imaging in Drug Development Conference 2009]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=33Tue, 6 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTMaximising drug development with the latest on imaging application.


Successfully utilising molecular imaging tec]]><![CDATA[Partnerships in Oncology Clinical Trials]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=32Tue, 9 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMTInvestment in the development of oncology therapeutics has grown steadily in recent years, but attrition rates have remained high. Because the need]]><![CDATA[e-Oncology - The Future of Cancer Data]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=31Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
A bi-lateral Italy-UK workshop at the Italian Cultural Institute, London, Monday 27th October 2008

A crisp clea]]><![CDATA[7th Annual BTOG Meeting 2009]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=30Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMTBTOG aims to improve the care of patients with thoracic malignancies through multidisciplinary education and clinical and scientific research.

]]><![CDATA[VIBevents Validating Biomarkers for Effective Drug Development Conference 2008]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=29Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMTImplementing biomarkers for faster, more accurate and efficient clinical trials.

<![CDATA[International Conference of Anticancer Research, Kos, Greece, 17th-23rd October 2008]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=28Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMTThe eighth International Conference of Anticancer Research was held on the beautiful Greek island of Kos from October 17th – 23rd, 2008. This confe]]><![CDATA[Temozolomide 30 Years On]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=26Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Leading brain cancer drug celebrated



Scientis]]><![CDATA[The World Cancer Conference, 27-31 August 2008, Geneva]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=25Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMTUICC’s 2008 meeting may prove an instigator for great success in the global struggle against cancer. Where many cancer conferences cover mainly the]]><![CDATA[From the bedside to the bench, and back?]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=24Mon, 1 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMTPharmacogenomics, the rescue of failed drugs and phase 0 trials:

 

Pharm]]><![CDATA[VIBevents Clinical Trials Oncology Conference 2008]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=23Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTHow can we improve clinical trials in oncology?

 ]]><![CDATA[Drugs News]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=19Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTPharmatimes has reported on new cancer drugs this month:

&#]]><![CDATA[Do Dogs Cause Cancer?- Risk Perception and the Media]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=18Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTWhilst out for dinner with my parents recently, my mother leaned over the table and slipped me an article that she had cut out of that week’s Sunda]]><![CDATA[European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) Spring Convention March 2008]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=17Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTNew ways of working:  Innovation in cancer nursing practice

Pharmatimes has reported several new products coming to market this month:

]]><![CDATA[Oncology Summit Europe: 30-31 January 2008]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=13Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTOncology Summit Europe 30-31 Jan

A wet and windy London greeted pharma representatives from across Europe, along with key opinion leaders]]><![CDATA[Pharmas aren't the enemy]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=12Wed, 9 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTWhile pharmas can often be seen to put profit before patients it mu]]><![CDATA[ESMO Cancer Patient Advocacy Forum (26-27 Nov. Brussels)]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=20Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTThis meeting brought together international cancer patient associat]]><![CDATA[Transatlantic Fallout]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=8Mon, 5 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMTTwo European Court rulings caught the eye recently. Each has dragged on so long that most observers have assumed that the Europea]]><![CDATA[Shock news: being unhealthy raises the risk of dying]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=7Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTScientists have also discovered that eating healthy food and exercising more increas]]><![CDATA[European Cancer Conference and NCRI]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=6Wed, 3 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMTAs Chief Executive of Tenovus I give you two observations of the ECCO congress this year. Given that charities pay for half of al]]><![CDATA[PRISM and the American Association of Publishers - The last gasp of the anti-open access lobby?]]>http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/blog.asp?postId=5Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMTPRISM: Fighting Against Open Access

Open Access (OA), made possible by the advent of the