Cancer This article is more than 7 months oldGlobal ‘silver tsunami’ of older cancer patients is coming, experts warnThis article is more than 7 months oldOncologists sound alarm over risk of healthcare systems buckling due to rising need for specific care
The world must urgently prepare for a global “tsunami” of millions of older cancer patients or risk healthcare systems being unable to cope, leading doctors have warned.
With life expectancy increasing and a rapidly soaring population of older people, a looming increase in elderly patients with cancer was now a “serious public health concern”, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) said in a report. Read More...
Goltzius and the Pelican CompanyReviewPeter Greenaway's story of a Dutch painter attempting to produce an erotic edition of the Old Testament depicts the birth of modern media – and the sex behind itPeter Greenaway's new film is an explicitly, almost pedantically erotic court masque for the cinema, and an attempt to fuse the early modern aesthetic of the 16th century with the 21st-century medium of digital film. It continues this director's idiosyncratic critical engagement with fine art and the masterpieces of the Renaissance. Read More...
ComedyReviewAssembly Hall theatre, Tunbridge Wells Heartfelt two-act show revels in the manic, painful and sometimes amusing fallout of recovering from alcoholism
Has the advent of trauma-comedy been a boon to standup, broadening its emotional range? Or has it, as the sceptics argue, replaced tears of laughter with tears of sympathy? I’ll meet those sceptics halfway tonight: John Robins’ Howl is both more and less than a comedy show. It finds the 41-year-old in recovery from alcoholism but still wrestling with “the problem of myself”, and speaking candidly about both. Read More...
