Films that feature characters with cancer have become a familiar sight for movie-goers in recent years, but they rarely portray the patient’s chances of survival accurately. During the upcomming ESMO 2012 Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology in Vienna, Austria, Italian researchers will present their finding about how cancer is portrayed in the movies. 

Movies often show an…

While it is well established that men get cancer more than women, and sometimes at considerably higher rates, few scientists have examined why. In an article published this month in the online version of the European Journal of Epidemiology, a group of American and Swedish researchers, including the Cancer Prevention Institute of California (CPIC),…