Hans Kristensen, Director of the Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists, Washington DC and co-author of “The Growing Threat of Nuclear War and the Role of the Health Community” (World Medical Journal, 2016) tells Peter Goodwin why we need …

Audio Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Reporting from: 2016 European Society of Cardiology, Rome

Competitive and Leisure Sports: Recommendations to Minimise Cardiovascular Risk

ROME—Exercise benefits most patients with cardiovascular disease who can take part in leisure sports safely if they wish, …

Audio Journal of Oncology

Young Patients With Early Breast Cancer Live Longer With Mastectomy

September 1, 2016

Transcript of the podcast as broadcast:

PETER GOODWIN: Younger women with early breast cancer treated with mastectomy had lower mortality at 20 years …

WASHINGTON DC—A new type of immunotherapy has brought responses in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in relapse who had no other options to prevent the progress of this fatal phase of the disease. At the American Association for Cancer Research…

WASHINGTON DC—A new type of immunotherapy has helped patients with advanced ovarian cancer who had no other therapeutic options. In a study reported to the 2013 conference of the American Association for Cancer Research Dr Lana Kandalaft from…

CAMBRIDGE, UK—A new blood test promises quicker assessment of treatment efficacy in patients with metastatic breast cancer. Dr Dana Tsui and colleagues from the Cancer Research UK Institute at Cambridge University report in the New England Journal of Medicine that …

Walking a dog most days could cut down your risk of having a recurrence of breast cancer, according to research presented at the St Gallen conference on Primary Therapy of Early Breast Cancer in Switzerland — where delegates also heard …

ST GALLEN, SWITZERLAND—Bisphosphonates have an important part to play in managing breast cancer according to research reported at the 2013 St Gallen conference on “Primary Therapy of Early Breast Cancer”. Professor Robert Coleman…

ST GALLEN, SWITZERLAND—The controversy about the effectiveness of mammographic screening was aired at the 2013 conference on “Primary Therapy of Early Breast Cancer” by Dr Donald Berry of the University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. While …

ORLANDO, FLORIDA—Patients with low-risk prostate cancer are more likely to die with their disease than of it, according to Dr Ayal Aizer from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University in Boston, MA — a …