Almost exactly a year ago, on 23 October 2019, CapeRay’s senior management team held an online pre-submission meeting with representatives of the […]
Archive for 2020
The Rule of Three
The second week in October is when the world’s leading scientists eagerly await a telephone call from Stockholm with life-changing […]
Impact of Covid-19 on Breast Screening
It’s the first week of October, the month when the colour pink highlights the efforts by society to remind women […]
Serendipity and Breast Cancer Detection
The Cambridge Dictionary defines “serendipity” as “finding interesting or valuable things by chance.” The origin of the word dates back […]
Is Nanox another Theranos?
At the beginning of 2020, we highlighted the story of Theranos, manufacturer of a “revolutionary” blood testing system that was supposedly able […]
Professor and Entrepreneur
Twenty years ago, I published a commentary entitled “The professor as entrepreneur” in which I reflected on my decade as an academic […]
Honeybee Venom Kills Breast Cancer Cells
Apitherapy is a branch of alternative medicine dating back thousands of years, in which honeybee products – such as pollen, propolis, […]
Battle of the Algorithms
Screening healthy women with full-field digital mammography (FFDM) is considered the gold standard for the early detection and successful treatment […]
Treatment is on Target
Radiation therapy or radiotherapy is a treatment that employs ionising radiation to kill malignant cancer cells and is usually delivered by a […]
Breast Screening and Radiation
One of the reasons why some women are reluctant to subject themselves to an annual mammogram is a concern that […]