Last Saturday, 4 February 2023, marked World Cancer Day and, in advance of this annual event, the World Health Organization (WHO) released […]
Posts Tagged ‘WHO’
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 […]
Panning for Gold
The title for today’s blog has been adapted from an editorial highlighting a paper that appeared this week in Science Translational Medicine, […]
Horns of a Dilemma
Imagine you are a creative person and you invent something with significant commercial potential. Should you fulfil the legal obligation […]
An Outward Selling Mission to the Middle East
On Monday 1st October, Arab News published a front-page story on breast cancer, stating that women in the Middle East remain reluctant […]
Cancer Cure in 5 to 10 Years
Last Saturday, 4 February 2017, was World Cancer Day and the WHO provided new guidelines, with a focus on diagnosing and treating the […]
Global Trends in Breast Cancer Rates
Carol DeSantis has recently published an important paper entitled “International variation in female breast cancer incidence and mortality rates” in Cancer Epidemiology, […]
Improving the State of the World
For the past week much of the world has been focused on the lurid details surrounding FIFA and its president, Sepp Blatter. […]
Jury Still Out on E-Cigarettes
Active smoking increases the risk of breast cancer and when women stop smoking, the risk disappears. Among the most widely used strategies to assist […]
Combating the Ebola Epidemic
Ebola virus. © Cynthia Goldsmith, CDC Yesterday the President of the United States went on the offensive at a special high-level […]