Latest Oncology articles from the BMJ

Social networks, social media, and social diseases

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:27:38 +0100

Cancer risk in 680 000 people exposed to computed tomography scans in childhood or adolescence: data linkage study of 11 million Australians

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:32:15 +0100

CT radiation risks coming into clearer focus

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:32:15 +0100

Should we sequence everyone’s genome? Yes

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:32:15 +0100

Colorectal cancer

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:53:27 +0100

Targets for non-communicable disease: what has happened since the UN summit?

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:53:27 +0100

This week’s World Health Assembly will again discuss targets for non-communicable diseases. Joyce K Ho and Rajaie Batniji examine the difficulties of getting an agreement.

Partnering with patients

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:02:14 +0100

Rx: A dose of ethics to revive trust in medical practice

Thu, 09 May 2013 04:33:33 +0100

“Gold jewellery? Cars and air conditioners to survive the sweltering Indian summer, or an exotic foreign trip to escape it? These are among the luxury gifts listed in a parliamentary committee report as being used by pharmaceutical companies to coax doctors into prescribing their drugs.” Anita Jain on the complicity that can develop between doctors and drug companies, and a vision for change . . .

Acne vulgaris

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:50:02 +0100

A good news tale of two diseases

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:50:02 +0100

Pros and cons of drugs to prevent breast cancer

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:50:02 +0100

Slightly higher risk of another cancer after a first non-melanoma skin cancer

Wed, 01 May 2013 05:43:00 +0100

Breast cancer detection and survival among women with cosmetic breast implants: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

Tue, 30 April 2013 11:57:07 +0100

“It’s just a muscle sprain”

Tue, 30 April 2013 02:28:53 +0100

A pain in the neck type of headache

Mon, 29 April 2013 11:56:40 +0100

Hearing loss in adults

Thu, 25 April 2013 11:36:13 +0100

Hoarseness in a 79 year old woman

Thu, 25 April 2013 10:05:35 +0100

Research Paper of the Year award 2013

Wed, 24 April 2013 03:39:39 +0100

Do patients need to know they are terminally ill? No

Wed, 24 April 2013 11:51:53 +0100

Emily Collis and Katherine Sleeman say that decision making can be ethically sound only with a fully informed patient, but Leslie Blackhall thinks the concept of “terminal illness” is not clearly defined and that prognoses can never be certain.

Do patients need to know they are terminally ill? Yes

Wed, 24 April 2013 11:51:53 +0100