Mortality rates for breast cancer are higher where treatments are unavailable and unaffordable. Though less effective, breast examination could be a good screening approach.

Inequity makes it imperative to consider how trade and patent policies influence international patients’ access to treatment and prevention.

Vaping has been thought to be a safe, effective smoking cessation aid, but little evidence supports its value in mitigating tobacco use.

A patient’s story represents an ethical dilemma of cancer screening: it can save lives but generates diagnostic morbidity and incurs costs.

HPV tests are alternatives to Pap smear screening that enable women to self-collect specimens and might be the best cervical cancer prevention strategy for many.

Cervical cancer has become rare in high-income countries but is a leading cause of mortality among women in low- and middle-income countries. This inequity is an epidemiological tragedy.

Tobacco and e-cigarette marketing is largely unrestricted in low- and middle-income countries, a violation of children’s rights.

Eliminating cervical cancer inequality means transmen need regular, unimpeded access to regular Pap screening.

Drs Christy Rentmeester and David Heymann discuss the ethical relevance of colonialism and deadly disease outbreaks.

A scientist-patient and patient-caregiver sit for a portrait and consider complementary therapy and its value in facilitating observation of patient-caregiver relationships.