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“I Live for Two”: Isabel’s Daydreaming World Between Grief and Light
When Isabel Deprince, a formerly successful model, describes the moments she feels most like herself, she doesn’t mention spotlights or runways. She talks about being alone in her studio, sleeves rolled up, paint drying on her hands. Painting, she says,…
Common Sense Oncology: Putting Patients Back at the Center in the Era of Cancer Innovation
Precision medicine, immunotherapy, and cellular therapies have reshaped the landscape of oncology, turning once-fatal diagnoses into chronic, or even curable, conditions. These breakthroughs represent extraordinary scientific progress and a deepening understanding of cancer biology. Yet beneath this success runs a…
Surviving the Tumor, Living with the Impact
“When this tumor entered our lives, nothing felt stable anymore — we had to rebuild our days piece by piece," a caregiver recalls. Why brain cancer survivorship needs to move center stage — as research pushes into AI, precision medicine…
Beyond the Checkpoint: What Comes After PD-1?
When the first signals of modern immunotherapy began to emerge a little over a decade ago, many of us realised that oncology was about to change forever. I still remember the sense of astonishment when we saw the first durable…
Researcher’s Perspective on the Time Toxicity of Cancer Care
Oncology has seen tremendous progress over the last few decades. Yet, for advanced solid cancers, some new treatments offer only a few weeks of survival benefit. Meanwhile, the amount of time spent in pursuing these new treatments can be substantial.…
From Health Literacy to Health-Rights Literacy: Bringing the How into Cancer-Screening Awareness
Across Europe, cancer-prevention messages have become increasingly visible: mammography after age 50, HPV testing at 30, colorectal screening from mid-life onward. These messages reflect years of investment in health literacy and promotion. Yet a critical question persists: when citizens know…
Cancer Treatment at Home: Inside Kenya’s Early Experience
For decades, cancer treatment has been anchored firmly within hospital walls, where the complexity and risks of chemotherapy seemed inseparable from clinical infrastructure. But as newer, less toxic therapies emerge, a quiet revolution is taking shape: the idea that certain…
Minister Robert Troy: “Because I Wanted to Be a Voice for Others” Leading Ireland’s Right to Be Forgotten Reform
I expected to meet a Minister defined by data, evidence and pragmatism. And I did. What I did not anticipate was the depth of empathy behind those qualities, or the disarming honesty of someone who describes himself, with a smile,…
The Person Behind the Legend: The Portrait of Professor Andrea Ferrari
When I started my fellowship in Italy, I knew I would meet Professor Andrea Ferrari, the Legend whose work I had studied line by line. I thought I was prepared. I had read his papers… But nothing in the literature…
Robert A. Weinberg: The Architect of Modern Cancer Biology
If you ask Robert Weinberg how his career began, he will not tell you a story of grand plans or carefully plotted ambition. He will tell you it was “a series of accidents.” “Most people have a series of goals…