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Hospice caring for women with cervical cancer launches own mobile screening clinic
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Hospice caring for women with cervical cancer launches own mobile screening clinic

  • Esther Nakkazi
  • 20 September 2023

It’s 9.30 in the heart of Kaliro district in eastern Uganda, and a group of women is already gathered outside the Nansololo Health Centre II by the time the van from the Rays of Hope Hospice Jinja arrives. They are…

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Breast surgery: closing the quality gap in Poland
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Breast surgery: closing the quality gap in Poland

  • Agnieszka Witkowicz-Matolicz
  • 8 September 2023

This investigation was prompted by the story of Julia, a lawyer who fled her home in Kyiv in the spring of 2022, as Russian forces were advancing on Ukraine’s capital. At the time, the mother of two was reaching the…

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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 to gynaecologists, who told her that the lump in her…

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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 a model of cervical cancer elimination developed for use in…

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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 Cancer Research UK, included presentations by Black researchers, career talks…

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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 Novartis and the Medicines Patent Pool – a UN backed…

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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 in ten Romanians over the age of 15 are tobacco…

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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 turns out to be a cancer, a quick and accurate…

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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 Delhi. “We had about 15 Pap smear bottles per day…

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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 had to change to a different drug, or was able…

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