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Dr Georgios Lyratzopoulos (University College London, London, UK) discusses his two papers from the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership on the use of chemotherapy or radiotherapy in eight common cancers in Norway, the UK, Canada, and Australia.

Senior Editor Owen Stretton talks to Professor Shankar Siva from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne about the International Society of Stereotactic Radiosurgery’s new systematic review and practice guidelines for stereotactic body radiotherapy in primary renal cell carcinoma.

Professor Neerja Bhatla (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India) discusses her Article on the Immunogenicity and safety of a new quadrivalent HPV vaccine in girls and boys aged 9–14 years versus an established quadrivalent HPV vaccine in women aged 15–26 years in India.

Dr Chandra Are (University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA) discusses highlights and recommendations from the Lancet Oncology Commission on Global Cancer Surgery: pragmatic solutions to improve cancer surgery outcomes worldwide.

Ticiana Leal (Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA) discusses her paper on Tumour Treating Fields.

Carlos Fernández de Larrea (Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain) and Damian Green (Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA) discuss their studies on BCMA CAR T cells in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

Madeline Pe (EORTC, Brussels, Belgium) discusses her Policy Review on the innovative medicines initiative, an expansion of the Setting International Standards in Analysing Patient-Reported Outcomes and Quality of Life Endpoints in Cancer Clinical Trials (SISAQOL) initiative.

Dr Kadia Petricca (SickKids Hospital, Toronto, Canada), Dr Joyce Kambugu (Uganda Cancer Institute, Kampala, Uganda), and Dr Avi Denburg (SickKids Hospital) discuss their paper “Access to essential cancer medicines for children: a comparative mixed-methods analysis of availability, price, and health-system determinants in east Africa”.

Dr Mark Lythgoe (Imperial College London, London, UK), discusses his new Review, "From The European Medicines Agency to Project Orbis: New activities and challenges to facilitate UK Oncology Drug Approval following Brexit".

Prof Janet Brown (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK) discusses the phase 2/3 STAR trial on treatment cessation versus continuation with tyrosine kinase inhibitors in advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Prof Valerie Speirs (University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland) discusses her Systematic Review on genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, epigenetic, and phenotypic biomarkers in male breast cancer.

Prof Sameer Bakhshi, (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India) discusses his Article on sex disparities in childhood cancer in India.

Shankar Siva (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia) discusses his Article on 5-year outcomes after stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy for primary renal cell carcinoma.

Mark Lawler (Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK) and Richard Sullivan (Kings College London, London, UK) discuss the European Groundshot—addressing Europe’s cancer research challenges: a Lancet Oncology Commission.

Samar Alhomoud (King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) discusses her review on progress and remaining challenges for cancer control in the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Inge Marie Svane (Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark) discusses her Review on clinical advances and ongoing trials on mRNA vaccines for cancer treatment.

Eline Giraud and Elise Smolders from the (Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands) discuss their Review on QT interval prolongation potential of anticancer and supportive drugs.

Ignace Vergote (Belgium and Luxembourg Gynaecological Oncology Group, Leuven, Belgium) and Maria Kyrgiou (Imperial College London, London, UK) discuss their Series papers on gynaecological cancers.

David J Pinato (Imperial College London, London, UK) discusses the OnCovid registry study on the outcomes of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant outbreak among patients with cancer in Europe.

Wilfred Ngwa (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; ICT University, Yaounde, Cameroon), Beatrice Wiafe-Addai (Peace and Love Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana), and David Kerr (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK) discuss the Lancet Oncology Commission on cancer in sub-Saharan Africa.

Georgios Lyratzopoulos (Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care at University College London, London, UK) discusses his population-based study on risk factors and prognostic implications of diagnosis of cancer within 30 days after an emergency hospital admission.

Lisa Iezzoni (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA) discusses her Series paper on disabilities and cancer and Jordan Marchak (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA) discusses her Review on surveillance of mental health problems in childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer survivors.

Rosie Bradley (Oxford Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK) discusses her Article on aromatase inhibitors versus tamoxifen in premenopausal women with oestrogen receptor-positive early-stage breast cancer treated with ovarian suppression.

Prof Yi-Long Wu (Guangdong Lung Cancer Institute, Guangzhou, China) and Prof Caicun Zhou (Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, China) discuss the GEMSTONE 301 and GEMSTONE 302 trials on sugemalimab versus placebo in non-small-cell lung cancer.

Rebecca Fitzgerald (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK) discusses her Article on the use of a Cytosponge biomarker panel to prioritise endoscopic Barrett's oesophagus surveillance.