Editorial Team
Adriana Albini
Editor in chief
Adriana Albini is a scientific collaborator at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO) in Milan, a former Professor of General Pathology at the Milan Bicocca University, she has been Deputy Chief of Genoa Cancer Center and Head of Research Department of Reggio Emilia Cancer Center and Scientific Director of MultiMedica Onlus.
She trained at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich and at the American National Institutes of Health in Maryland. She has over 350 peer-reviewed scientific publications and is among the most cited Italian women scientists in the biomedical field; she was elected the first Italian to the board of directors of the American Association for Cancer Research, and now she is the Chair of the Cancer Prevention working group of AACR.
President of the club of the Top Italian Women Scientists of Onda (National Observatory Foundation on Women’s and Gender Health), and member of the Scientific Commission of the Health Ministry. Scientific journalist, she is also a veteran fencing champion (bronze at the 2018 Veterans World Cup and European Silver in épée 2015). She was recognized by the BBC among the 100 most influential and inspiring women of 2020.
Anna Wagstaff
Senior Associate Editor
Anna Wagstaff has been part of the Cancerworld editorial team since the magazine was founded by the European School of Oncology in 2004, as part of its mission to educate young oncologists in patient-centred multidisciplinary treatment and care. Working under editor Kathy Redmond, they developed the magazine as a place where challenges and solutions to improving the delivery of high-quality cancer care could be explored by health journalists, free from the constraints of professional silos, hierarchies and vested interests. Together with Simon Crompton and under editor Adriana Albini, they shifted Cancerworld from a European to a global focus, building up a team of international contributors. Her degree is in Politics and Economics from Oxford University, after which she spent some years as a freelancer, crossing editorial boundaries by dividing her time between subediting for medical journals and working as a journalist on local newspapers and consumer magazines.
Janet Fricker
News Editor
Janet Fricker is a UK medical writer with an MA in Physiology from the University of Oxford. In addition to Cancerworld, Janet has worked for the Cancer Drug Development Forum, Cancer Research UK, Lancet Oncology, European Journal of Cancer, Molecular Oncology, Ecancer Medical Science, and European School of Oncology (where she wrote the Oncopaedia sections on breast cancer). For the BMJ, Janet has written obituaries of prominent oncologists including Craig Jordan, Gordon McVie, Umberto Veronesi and Bernard Fisher.
For over 10 years Janet wrote the Congress newspaper for the European Society of Cardiology reporting on late breaking clinical trials, writing features about cardiovascular advances and interviewing KOLs.
Janet has written for consumer publications including The Times, The Economist, The Daily Mail, The Independent and Marie Claire. Before going freelance, Janet worked as an assistant producer for BBC Science and Features, BBC TV news and was medical editor of the science and technology magazine Focus.
Editor-in-Chief: Adriana Albini
Senior Associate Editor: Anna Wagstaff
News Editor: Janet Fricker
International Editorial Panel Co-ordinator: Simon Crompton
Contributing Writers: Adriana Albini (Italy), Simon Crompton (UK), Sophie Fessl (Austria), Victoria Forster (Canada), Janet Fricker (UK), Tina Jiang (China), Marwa Kocak (Turkey), Andrei Mihai (Romania), Esther Nakkazi (Uganda), Myriam Vidal Valero (Mexico), Anna Wagstaff (UK), Agnieszka Witkowicz-Matolicz (Poland), Swagata Yadavar (India), Adrian Pogacian (Romania)