Managing editor, Prof Gordon McVie, discusses the top articles from December 2014 published in ecancermedicalscience.

Articles mentioned are:

Palliative care in Africa: a global challenge (special issue)

The current situation in education and training of health-care professionals across Africa to optimise the delivery of palliative care for cancer patients

Palliative care for cancer patients in Sudan: an overview

Home-based palliative care for adult cancer patients in Ibadan—a three year review

Palliative care needs of HIV exposed and infected children admitted to the inpatient paediatric unit in Uganda

Cancer education in Lithuania

Eurocan Platform meeting: European recommendations for biomarker-based chemoprevention trials

Repurposing drugs in oncology (ReDO)—Cimetidine as an anti-cancer agent

Click here to see Prof McVie's conference report from UICC.