Why magazines and journals still need editors. From Foreign Policy, Spring 2024.

I miss tweet of the day.

America's reckoning. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Stella Kyriakides, Europe’s Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, talks about her own experiences with breast cancer. She describes Europe’s cancer plan as an opportunity to improve equity of care across the continent.

Mareike Thompson: By improving communication and empowerment for women with breast cancer, some of the wider barriers and obstacles for women in society can be addressed.

Felicia Knaul emphasises that the intangible costs of breast cancer - suffering and pain - must be measured, understood, and acted upon.

Miriam Mutebi points out that 70% of deaths from cancer occur in low/middle income countries, while those same countries receive only 5% of global cancer resources.

Maya Bienz explains how people with metastatic breast cancer are unseen, abandoned, and stigmatised.

Stuart McIntosh stresses that research leadership in breast cancer must be global: with 70% of those with breast cancer being in low/middle income countries by 2030, equity in research is a priority.

Wanda Cui presents evidence to show that 25% of breast cancers in high-income countries could be prevented.

Lesley Stephen describes her experience with metastatic breast cancer. The Commission makes the case for curing some, treating most, alleviating suffering of all, and abandoning no one.

Hilary Stobart is a patient advocate who describes how she had her breast cancer diagnosed 14 years ago. She emphasises the importance of prevention.

Breast cancer: there has been unequal progress; there are hidden costs and sufferings; those with metastatic cancer are a forgotten group; and communication is key.

“Breast cancer is far from being solved.”

Jessamy Bagenal was our editor who led for The Lancet: she discusses the Commission in the context of her own family history of breast cancer. We need to prioritise stories like Jessamy’s to understand why we must take cancer more seriously.

Charlotte Coles, who chaired our Lancet Commission on Breast Cancer, launches her report in Cambridge today.

Tony Fauci spoke at the Royal Society last night. Here are his lessons common to HIV/AIDS and COVID-19. There are others I think.

Nick Boles sums it up perfectly.

Much of the media coverage about today’s Lancet Commission on Breast Cancer focuses on prevention. That’s fine, but another key message focuses on metastatic breast cancer, a condition that is commonly ignored and stigmatised. Nobody with metastatic cancer should be abandoned.

Health systems, democracy, and the exaggerated hopes for artificial intelligence. thelancet.com/journals/lance…