This article discusses the role of general practice in the care of cancer survivors and provides recommendations for cancer survivorship care planning.

In addition to a role in cancer surveillance, GPs have key roles in the management of comorbid illness, secondary prevention, health promotion, self-management promotion and coordination of care.

As cancer shifts towards a chronic disease care model, general practitioners remain essential to the patient journey from first suspicion to survivorship.

Early detection of cancer requires us to maintain both knowledge of insidious warning signs and vigilance in seeking these out.

This paper discusses the importance of oral cancer awareness in clinical practice

Clinicians should be alert to factors contributing to increased non-melanoma skin cancers.

This review provides a contemporary update on androgen deprivation therapy, with further discussion of emerging novel therapies for primary care.

The advent of new technologies has turned the tide in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.

There is a need to support men to make informed decisions about prostate-specific antigen testing using appropriate information resources and decision aids.

The relationship between prolonged breast cancer pathways and poorer survival is well established.

Molecular targeting agents are revolutionising treatment options, particularly poly adenosine diphosphate–ribose polymerase inhibitors, especially for patients with an underlying BRCA mutation.

Radiation therapy may be used as definitive treatment for low-risk cancers, as an adjuvant treatment for high-risk disease or alone for inoperable cases.

Prevention and early diagnosis coupled with curative treatments are key strategies for reducing lung cancer mortality by avoiding the sequelae of metastatic disease.

All neck masses should be considered malignant until proven otherwise.

Evidence suggests that exercise has a significant therapeutic effect in the management of cancer.