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Beyond the Final Score: What the Winners Cup Means to Young People With Cancer
For more than 200 young people with cancer from across Europe, a football tournament in Milan offered something that cancer can make difficult to find: a chance to be with friends, feel understood and enjoy being young. At the end…
What the Scan Couldn’t Tell Me
The scan was stable. I remember feeling a quiet sense of satisfaction as I shared the news with my patient and his wife. After all, in oncology, stable disease is something worth celebrating. I had already moved mentally to the…
Building a Clinical Trial in a Country at War: What Lviv Taught Us
What does it take to bring a complex cell-therapy trial to an intensive care unit in a country at war? Thiago Favano travelled to Lviv expecting to assess whether it could be done. He came away with a different understanding…
“Go Be Normal”: The Childhood Cancer Survivor Who Built What Her Family Never Had
When Brett Wilson finished cancer treatment at the age of 12, a hospital nurse walked outside with her and her mother and offered three words of advice: “Go be normal.” Wilson looked at her mother. “What does that mean? Go…
Oncology Couch: The Shadows of another Dimension
What children with cancer may be teaching us about medicine, uncertainty, and what it means to be human There are conversations in oncology that begin with a question. And then there are conversations in which, somewhere along the way, the…
From 10% to More Than 50% Survival: Tanzania Transforms Childhood Cancer Care, But Challenges Remain
In Tanzania in the early 2000s, healthcare for children with cancer was very limited. The majority of affected children never reached a treatment centre and 90% of those who did, ultimately died1. Today, childhood cancer care has been transformed with…
CancerWorld #119 (September 2026)
The history of pediatric oncology is one of extraordinary progress. Children who once had little chance of surviving cancer are now growing into adulthood, building careers, raising families and imagining futures that previous generations could not. But progress has also…
CancerWorld | PICI– Special Issue 2026
10 Years of PICI: From Discovery to Impact Ten years ago, the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI) was created around a bold premise: that progress in cancer research could be accelerated by changing not only what science pursued, but…
The Missing Link in Cancer Care: Can AI-supported patient navigation close the gap in LMICs?
For many people with cancer in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the greatest barrier is not that treatment is unavailable. It is that the path to treatment is fragmented, difficult to navigate, and easy to fall out of. A person…
Beyond Anxiety and Depression: A New Framework for Mental Health in Cancer Care
Emerging research suggests that understanding psychological wellbeing in people affected by cancer requires looking beyond traditional diagnostic categories. A cancer diagnosis is far more than a medical event. It can disrupt every aspect of a person's life, reshaping relationships, work,…