ESCO Contest
ESO College Voices Contest 2025: Social media – friend or foe for cancer patients? – Winners Announced
This year’s ESO College Voices Contest proved once again that doctors can also be excellent cancer writers. For this year’s contest, we received 27 proposals from ESO College members across 20 countries, each elaborating on the chosen topic: "Social media –…
Advocacy in oncology: Fighting for patients inside and outside the hospital
Dear World, Everyone can get cancer - yet, access to the right treatment remains a privilege that is still denied to far too many. In this disparity, the disease reveals a deeper truth: cancer care is not just about…
Inequality in cancer care: preventing it from becoming inadequacy
“Wait! You can’t give your patients pemetrexed?” my young colleague exclaimed during a break between lectures at an international meeting. Quietly, feeling the heat rise to my cheeks, I replied, “No, it is not available in my country for that…
Artificial Intelligence: Capturing the zeitgeist
As the Austrian writer Karl Kraus pointed out at the turn of the twentieth century, the development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature. That ‘remaining problem’ was the focus of an article published last…
AI in oncology: revolutionising care while mitigating inequities
During a recent clinic visit, a young woman newly diagnosed with breast cancer mentioned that she had used ChatGPT to research treatment options. We explained to the patient that, although ChatGPT can give sophisticated responses in an authoritative tone, it…