Sikora on Oncology

• What's Wrong With NHS Cancer Imaging Services?   Professor Karol Sikora reflects on a critical report on NHS imaging services.
  Medscape UK, July 16, 2021
• What's the Future for Precision Radiotherapy?   Professor Karol Sikora reviews the latest radiotherapy advances in precision cancer care.
  Medscape UK, May 25, 2021
• NHS Recovery and Post-COVID Cancer Care   Professor Karol Sikora reflects on a new report on coping with a 10m patient waiting list.
  Medscape UK, February 22, 2021
• What Will Happen to Cancer Services in 2021?   Professor Karol Sikora gives his predictions for cancer diagnosis and treatment under COVID-19 as we head towards the New Year.
  Medscape UK, December 24, 2020
• Thirty Years of Cancer Care Documented but What Does the Future Hold?   Professor Karol Sikora has edited his latest and last edition of a major cancer book and reflects on what's changed over the years, and what's still to come.
  Medscape UK, December 01, 2020
• 'Shattering': Why Even a Month's Cancer Delay Matters   Professor Karol Sikora didn’t think a 4 week delay in cancer treatment would matter until he read 'shattering' results in a recent BMJ paper.
  Medscape UK, November 06, 2020
• ESMO 2020 ESMO: How Cancer Services Were Hit by COVID-19 First Wave   Professor Karol Sikora reflects on data presented at ESMO and how the pandemic halted cancer care.
  Medscape UK, September 25, 2020
• COVID-19: Cancer Patients' Year 2020 Bad Deal   Professor Karol Sikora reflects on the worrying effects of cancer delays on mortality and urges the NHS to get moving.
  Medscape UK, August 21, 2020
• UK's COVID-19 Testing 'Cobbled Together'   Professor Karol Sikora unpicks the problems with the UK's COVID-19 testing system and why we've got to get our act together.
  Medscape UK, July 15, 2020
• COVID-19 Cancer Delays: We've Got to Get Going   Professor Karol Sikora considers the latest data on the cancer diagnosis and treatment backlog in England and offers an action plan to tackle the crisis.
  Medscape UK, June 12, 2020
• COVID-19: Antibody Tests and Kickstarting Non-COVID NHS Services   Professor Karol Sikora looks at the evidence for antibody testing and the need to get non-coronavirus NHS services back up and running.
  Medscape UK, May 16, 2020
• COVID-19: Why Restarting Cancer Services Can't Come Soon Enough   NHS England is encouraging people with cancer symptoms to seek advice, but Prof Karol Sikora is concerned about a COVID-19-related cancer treatment backlog.
  Medscape UK, April 30, 2020
• COVID-19: Testing Times for Everybody?   Professor Karol Sikora set out to test all staff at his cancer centres for coronavirus. Here's what happened.
  Medscape UK, April 21, 2020
• COVID-19: My Social Media Journey Over Cancer Delays   Prof Karol Sikora on how he joined Twitter to raise concerns about cancer care being put on the backburner because of coronavirus.
  Medscape UK, April 09, 2020
• COVID-19: Is the NHS Making the Right Decisions on Cancer Treatment?   Prof Karol Sikora assesses UK guidance on cancer care under COVID-19 restrictions.
  Medscape UK, March 27, 2020
• Coronavirus and Cancer Care. Has China Taught Us Anything?   Prof Karol Sikora looks at the impact the coronavirus pandemic will have on UK cancer care.
  Medscape UK, March 13, 2020
• How Should England's Children's Cancer Care be Reorganised?   Prof Karol Sikora gives his assessment of an NHS England report into improving cancer care for children.
  Medscape UK, February 05, 2020
• Top 6 Cancer Highlights of 2019   Prof Karol Sikora offers his end-of-year pick of this year's developments in oncology.
  Medscape UK, December 27, 2019
• Can Lunchbreak Screening Make a Difference to Cancer Survival?   Prof Karol Sikora on the latest report on improving cancer screening uptake and success in England.
  Medscape UK, October 21, 2019
• Why is the UK Bottom of the Global Cancer Survival League Table?   The UK has done worse on cancer survical among high-income countries - but why? Prof Karol Sikora gives his thoughts.
  Medscape UK, September 16, 2019