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Yeva Margaryan
Michael Gnant at the Crossroads of Oncology: Precision, Restraint, and the Courage to Challenge Orthodoxy
Sixteen years ago, Dr. Michael Gnant was portrayed in CancerWorld as a surgical oncologist unafraid to push boundaries in breast cancer care. Today, his perspective reflects not retreat but evolution. The boundary-pusher remains, but his focus has widened. His work…
Making Sense of a Decade of Progress in Advanced Breast Cancer: ABC8, Lisbon 2025
The 8th ABC International Consensus Conference (ABC8), Lisbon 2025 Over the past decade, the landscape of advanced breast cancer has changed more rapidly than at any time since systemic therapy became standard. New drug classes, more refined biomarkers, and increasingly…
Europe’s National Cancer Mission Hubs: From a Vision to Sustainable Infrastructures
European cancer policy has entered a decisive phase. After years of strategy-building, consultation, and pilot projects, the question facing policymakers is no longer whether Europe has the right ambitions, but whether it can turn those ambitions into sustainable systems that…
“The Path Forward is Clear”
Interview with Olivér Várhelyi, EU Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare Image Credits: European Union 2025 - Source: European Parliament Cancer remains one of Europe’s most significant public health challenges, with incidence rising and inequalities in prevention, diagnosis, and care…
Gentle with People. Precise with Cancer.
Each evening, after a day leading one of Italy’s busiest radiotherapy departments, Prof. Andrea Filippi, Head of the Radiation Oncology Unit at the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan, and the Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology in the Department of…
CancerWorld | My Child Matters – Special Issue 2025
Twenty years ago, the My Child Matters (MCM) program was launched by the Sanofi Espoir Foundation (today Foundation S). This program aimed to improve access to treatment for children and their families in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Twenty years…
“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,…
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,…
CancerWorld #110 (December 2025)
Where progress is redesigned with purpose and delivered back to those who need it most Every issue of CancerWorld explores the places where science meets humanity, where personal stories reshape public systems, and where progress in oncology is defined not…
Prevent, Treat, Support: An Interview with MEP Tilly Metz
Since joining the European Parliament in 2018, Tilly Metz has emerged as one of the most prominent voices in European health and cancer policy. Representing Luxembourg for the Greens/EFA group, she has played a central role in advancing the EU’s…