Editorials
When Success is Not Enough: Why Women Still Face Barriers at the Top of Medical Research
A study on highly cited women scientists who have succeeded by conventional measures of academic achievement suggests that reaching the top does not mean that barriers have disappeared. For years, CancerWorld has documented the barriers that hold women back in…
44 Years of Vision. A New Era for Oncology Education
After more than four decades under the leadership of Alberto Costa, the European School of Oncology enters a new chapter with Rossella Blasi as CEO. The transition brings together the legacy of Umberto Veronesi’s founding vision and the challenge of…
Oncology Couch: Questions, Answers, and the Space in Between
To patients and oncologists alike: Are there questions living inside you that you have not been asking out loud? Could it be that you do not even know what questions to ask? Are there answers you have arrived at privately…
The Scientists Who Turned Cancer Prevention into a Vaccine: Dr Douglas Lowy and Dr John Schiller
The 2026 Pezcoller Foundation–AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research has recognised two scientists whose discoveries reshaped one of oncology’s greatest ambitions: preventing cancer before it begins. On 9 May, at the Teatro Sociale in Trento, Italy, Dr…
This is WHO
There is a lot being said about the World Health Organization these days. Criticism. Political tensions. Funding crises. Countries leaving. Endless speculation about what WHO is, what it failed to do, and what it should become. Some of that criticism…
Detecting Cancer Before It Strikes: The Promise of Combination Early Detection and Interception
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,…
Back on Screen: The Return of Smoking in Films and Its Public Health Implications
May 31 is “World No Tobacco Day” Smoking is one of the major factors for tumors, not only lung cancer. This year’s World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) campaign aims “to reveal the strategies employed by the tobacco and nicotine industries…
Leave no-one behind
Cancerworld is moving online, which means this will be the last printed version. We’re all sad to see the end of a physical magazine, which gave our readers real pages to turn, and the chance to take time away from…
Pandemics, War, Reconstruction and the Duty of Medicine and Science
“It is sufficiently obvious that the problems of reconstruction following the war will tax the intelligence and good will of mankind to the utmost. It is also certain that mistakes made during this period will have more serious consequences…
A fair chance for women in oncology: we must all insist on change
Women are under-represented in positions of power and leadership, in scientific and health disciplines across the world. This has been widely recognised for decades, yet efforts to implement the changes required to give women a fair chance have met with…