Peter Naredi

TL;DR: Urgent solutions range from re-engineering of the macroeconomic basis of cancer costs (eg, value-based approaches to bend the cost curve and allow cost-saving technologies), greater education of policy makers, and an informed and transparent regulatory system.

TL;DR: The first multidisciplinary consensus conference about cancer of the colon and rectum was held in December 2012 as mentioned in this paper, where the expert panel consisted of representatives of European scientific organisations involved in cancer care of patients with colon and Rectal cancer and representatives of national colorectal registries.

TL;DR: To critically assess centralization policies for highly specialized surgeries in Europe and North America and propose recommendations, which could apply across continents, there is an obvious need in most areas for effective centralization.

TL;DR: Use of histamine as an adjunct to IL-2 is safe, well tolerated, and associated with a statistically significant prolongation of survival compared with IL-1 alone in metastatic melanoma patients with liver involvement.

TL;DR: The recommendations in this report prioritise areas of research in the USA that the experts believe would accelerate efforts to benefit patients with cancer and hope the recommendations will facilitate new international collaborations to further enhance global efforts in cancer control.