Tom Roques

TL;DR: The flagship paper of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium describes the generation of the integrative analyses of 2,658 whole-cancer genomes and their matching normal tissues across 38 tumour types, the structures for international data sharing and standardized analyses, and the main scientific findings from across the consortium studies.

TL;DR: Low-dose radioiodine plus thyrotropin alfa was as effective as high-doseRadioiodine, with a lower rate of adverse events, in a randomized noninferiority trial of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer.

TL;DR: Adding GV1001 vaccination to chemotherapy did not improve overall survival and new strategies to enhance the immune response effect of telomerase vaccination were not found.

TL;DR: New guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence recommends Herceptin in early breast cancer, but it provides no additional funding or any suggestion of which services to cut, leaving medical staff with difficult decisions to make.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on radiotherapy activity in the English National Radiotherapy Dataset (NER) between February 4, 2019, and June 28, 2020.