Profiles

It was a quiet public holiday in Brussels. The weather was pleasant and sunny, most offices were closed, and the streets were unusually serene as people paused from their routines. But not Baroness Françoise Meunier. She welcomed me into her…

I first met George Kapetanakis at a Greek conference, where we were co-moderating a session. He came across as a warm and humble person. At the time, I had no idea he was the president of Greece’s largest patient organization.…

When Suheir Rasul talks about her journey, you don’t hear a linear career path—you hear a story of transformation, resilience, and service. Today, as Senior Vice President of ALSAC Global, the fundraising and awareness organization of St. Jude Children’s Research…

When Catharine Young talks about inequity, she isn’t referring to it in abstract terms. She grew up in South Africa at the end of apartheid, when systemic injustice was not just visible, it was part of daily life. That early…

It was 2018, and I was a fifth-year medical student at Yerevan State Medical University. Word spread that our new oncology professor was someone extraordinary: Gevorg Tamamyan - a Harvard-trained, Nature-published pioneer of pediatric oncology in Armenia and president of…

“I mean, while I was reading the book you gave me about Umberto Veronesi,” I said, “there’s this expression: As you set out for Ithaca, hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. You wrote…

Experience gained over decades of tackling cancer and supporting patients in Africa’s most populous country gives Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu unique insights and influence to help bring about progress in similar settings across the globe. She talked to CancerWorld journalist, Diana Mwango,…

Inside the remarkable journey of Princess Adila bint Abdullah Al Saud. An exclusive interview for CancerWorld. When I entered the room, it felt as though I had stepped into a page from an Arabian fairytale. The room was quiet and…

In a country bruised by war, in a hospital crumbling under the weight of poverty and silence, one man made an impossible promise and kept it. Samvel Danielyan’s story is not the story of easy heroes. It is a story…

Prof. Martine Piccart grew up in a house where medicine was part of the air. Her father, a gynecologist, treated patients at home. “I admired him deeply,” she says. “He helped people. I saw that up close. It left a…