Delivery of Care

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…

At 17, Annet Namubiru’s life changed drastically. Then a secondary school student, she began to fall ill without anyone understanding why. “I was at school and started feeling weak and tired,” she recalls. “As you know, when a girl of…

Imagine an oncologist stepping out of tumor board and into clinic with a complex case at hand. The patient’s tumor has multiple high-risk features, genomic mutations, and borderline indications for therapy. In the past, the doctor might sift through guidelines,…

At a cancer forum not long ago, after I introduced myself as an orthopaedic surgery resident, someone asked — with genuine curiosity — “But why are you here?” The question stayed with me, because it revealed a paradox: musculoskeletal health…

Oncology is both one of the most inspiring and one of the most demanding fields in medicine. Unlike other specialties, the emotional and professional boundaries in oncology are often blurred. Many of us feel that our lives are devoted to…

For parents of children battling cancer, finding a place to stay that is both affordable and close to the hospital is not just a convenience; it can mean the difference between life and death. Without accommodation, families are often forced…

Nine years ago, one of the leading artificial intelligence scientists, Geoffrey Hinton, made a startling prediction: “We should stop training radiologists now.” He believed that within five years, machines would outperform humans at reading medical images. Nearly a decade later,…

Latvia consistently ranks among the European Union's most troubled countries when it comes to cancer. The country lags behind EU countries on many cancer risk factors and also has one of the biggest gender disparities on the continent, with men…

For decades, early cancer detection has predominantly relied on organ-specific screening programs—such as mammography, Pap test, or colonoscopy—to detect malignancies as early as possible. While these approaches have indisputably saved lives, they inherently capture only a limited range of cancers,…

“The anticipatory fear that I had became reality when the doctor said that my 6-year-old son must undergo chemotherapy…the rest of the explanation I didn’t hear due to the shock that I had, even though I am a radiology nurse…