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The cancer patients still struggling to access drugs in the wake of anti-corruption reforms
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The cancer patients still struggling to access drugs in the wake of anti-corruption reforms

  • Giselle Vidal
  • 27 January 2023

Miriam Espinoza, a food vendor from Michoacán, Mexico, still remembers the day she received her cancer diagnosis in 2019. After months of waiting for a CT scan and several visits…

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Cervical cancer elimination efforts boosted by simpler ways to identify and treat pre-cancerous lesions
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Cervical cancer elimination efforts boosted by simpler ways to identify and treat pre-cancerous lesions

  • Esther Nakkazi
  • 12 January 2023

Project sites in seven low-income countries have reached the 90% targets set by the World Health Organization (WHO) for treating women identified with pre-cancerous lesions. This success was achieved using…

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Black in Cancer holds inaugural conference in London
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Black in Cancer holds inaugural conference in London

  • Victoria Forster
  • 1 December 2022

A new organisation set up to amplify Black voices and contributions to oncology is making its mark, two years since its foundation. An inaugural London conference in October, supported by…

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First voluntary licensing of cancer drug sets ‘vital precedent’ for the industry
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First voluntary licensing of cancer drug sets ‘vital precedent’ for the industry

  • Esther Nakkazi
  • 16 November 2022

The first voluntary licence for a patented cancer medicine was signed last month on the fringes of the 2022 World Cancer Congress in Geneva. The agreement between the pharmaceutical company…

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Tobacco industry still exerting power in Eastern Europe
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Tobacco industry still exerting power in Eastern Europe

  • Alexandra Nistoroiu
  • 3 November 2022

Despite major progress in 2016, when the Romanian Parliament banned smoking in all indoor public spaces, indoor workplaces and public transportation, the country still has a tobacco problem. Around three…

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Addressing the pathological hole at the core of many LMIC cancer plans
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Addressing the pathological hole at the core of many LMIC cancer plans

  • Esther Nakkazi
  • 23 September 2022

A patient visits their local primary care facility with symptoms that could indicate a possible cancer. What happens next could determine their chances of survival. In the event that it…

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Delivering cervical cancer screening across India: the plan… and the practice
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Delivering cervical cancer screening across India: the plan… and the practice

  • Swagata Yadavar
  • 9 September 2022

Gynaecologist Shalini Singh remembers the Pap smears she carried out until around twenty years ago, when she was working at the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences, in New…

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Begging for imatinib: why do so many patients still lack access to this lifesaver?
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Begging for imatinib: why do so many patients still lack access to this lifesaver?

  • Anna Wagstaff
  • 22 July 2022

Following doctor’s orders doesn’t usually mean making a two-hour round trip to visit your hospital twice a week to beg for any spare medication on the off-chance that someone has…

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A call to action: how Poland is stepping up for Ukraine’s cancer patients
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A call to action: how Poland is stepping up for Ukraine’s cancer patients

  • Agnieszka Witkowicz-Matolicz
  • 22 July 2022

February 24, 2022. Julia, a lawyer living near Kiev, is counting down the days until her last chemo. After which she will still face surgery and radiation therapy on her…

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Unicorns for Ukraine: mobilising to meet patients’ changing cancer care needs
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Unicorns for Ukraine: mobilising to meet patients’ changing cancer care needs

  • Sophie Fessl
  • 8 July 2022

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, consultant clinical oncologist Mohammed Hojouj put out a call for help: “Cancers do not stop growing because there is a war. But cancer…

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