The key to overcoming barriers to effective prevention and treatment in resource-restricted settings involves cooperation between multiple organisations, including medical societies, patient groups, pharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies
ESMO is contributing to making European Union legislation stricter on exposure limits for air pollution and asbestos to prevent new lung cancer cases
However, there are still many obstacles faced by investigators in achieving effective patient involvement in research
Delays and poor patient journey are reported in resource-constrained countries, while awareness campaigns and healthcare service reorganisation have improved rare cancer management in more developed areas
Adding precision to dose-finding in early-phase clinical trials has become critical in the immunotherapy era, and moving away from paradigms of the past has become mandatory
There is a broader negligence of the public health consequences of individual actions among the health providers
There is a misunderstanding in what financial conflict of interests do on single people and what system implications they may have
Treating patients at reduced doses could contribute to a more efficient allocation of healthcare resources and improve access to costly treatments around the world, but implementation of de-escalation in routine practice requires reliable and cost-effective tools to safely tailor therapy to patients
ESMO developed a classification to assess the risk-benefit ratio of treatment intensity modulation by a three-tiered approach
In neighbouring countries, oncologists are seeing a growing number of female refugees with breast cancer whose treatment may have started before they left Ukraine and urgently needs to be continued for good outcomes to be achieved.
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