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A firm link between smoking and bowel cancer has been established following a review of studies into the area.
The Czech Ministry of Health has introduced a new system of cancer care in the Czech Republic, which had been drawn up in cooperation with professionals from expert medical societies and health insurance companies.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer announces the launch of the World Cancer Report 2008.
Beginning of the year 2009 is going to become a milestone in cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment in the Czech Republic, as the population-based screening programme will be officially launched on the 1st of January 2009.
Two new studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association have found that people who supplement their diet with vitamins E and C or the mineral selenium do not have a lower risk of cancer.
Scientists at the University of Nottingham have identified a gene that helps to protect the body against lung cancer.
US scientists have found that raising taxes on beers, wines and spirits can have an immediate lowering effect on the number of deaths from alcohol-related health problems such as liver disease, alcohol poisoning, mouth and breast cancers.
In a paper to be published in Nature Genetics on 2nd November, a worldwide consortium of investigators present a major breakthrough for understanding the genetic basis of lung cancer.
The relations between CCCs and other cancer-related healthcare facilities (such as cooperating hospitals, mammography screening centres etc.) have been described in detail in the form of diagrams, which provide an overview of cancer care organization in individual regions of the Czech Republic.
Cancer patients from all over the Czech Republic can consult experts from a newly established Department of Biological Therapy at the General University Hospital (VFN) in Prague whether the biological therapy is suitable for them.
Czech oncologists are more successful in cancer treatment than ever before. This achievement can be attributed to new effective drugs, new instruments, but also to cancer prevention programmes launched a few years ago.
Starting from January 2009, the preventive examination for colorectal cancer will be covered by the medical insurance. This good news has been confirmed by Prof Jiri Vorlicek, President of the Czech Society for Oncology.
Sixty per cent of Czech patients with colorectal cancer are regularly diagnosed so late that they only have a 12% chance of five-year survival. In contrast, 93% of breast cancer patients - who have been diagnosed at an early stage - have been cured completely. Data of the Czech Society for Oncology have confirmed that if people took more advantage of cancer screening and paid attention to cancer prevention, much more cancer cases could have been cured.
The oncologists in Brno want to attract more people to have preventive cancer checkups. The Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute will make an effort to promote this kind of checkup, supported by the General Health Insurance Office (VZP).
A summit of more than 60 high-level policymakers, leaders and health experts have adopted a global plan aimed at tackling the growing cancer crisis in developing countries
The first research to look at recent trends in European cancer incidence, mortality and survival together has shown that cancer prevention and management in Europe is moving in the right direction. However, the research reveals that variations between countries in policies for mass screening, access to health care and treatment are reflected in the different cancer rates.
A call for action was presented at the 10th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer (WCGC), 25th June 2008, Barcelona, Spain.
Experts from Brno's Masaryk Oncological Institute (MOU) have joined an international hereditary cancer genes research focused on inherited aspects of cancer, MOU spokeswoman Zuzana Joukalova told CTK today.
April 2008 has seen the launch of the English version of www.mamo.cz, the official website of the project entitled Breast Screening Programme in the Czech Republic.
April 2008 has seen the launch of the English version of www.mamo.cz, the official website of the project entitled Breast Cancer Screening Programme in the Czech Republic.
The ONCOforum section at NOP On-line portal aims to give an overview of significant registries, research and grant projects related to the Czech oncology.
