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(Re)Thinking Psycho-oncology in a world out of balance: What I learned after a year of interviews
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy" Albert Camus Why me? This is probably the present-day question of every patient with cancer! One of the consequences of our chaotic reality is cancer, which belongs to that class of diseases that impacts the…
CancerWorld issue #103 (May, 2025)
What does it take to change the odds in cancer care? Innovation? Yes. But also: persistence. Collaboration. The refusal to accept that some lives matter less because of where they’re born. In this issue of CancerWorld, we focus not just…
Adrian Gottschalk: Making a Difference for His Fellow Human Beings
I grew up around a lot of physicians,” begins Adrian Gottschalk, President and CEO of Foghorn Therapeutics, a biotech company redefining how we understand and treat complex diseases by targeting the chromatin regulatory system. “My late father was a professor…
“I really care about people.” – Philip Kantoff, A Life in Science and Medicine
“I wanted to be a scientist when I grew up.” Boston. The city where old bricks and new ideas stand side by side. Where science, education, and innovation breathe together. The wind cuts through the streets of New England, sharp…
What If the World’s Leading Prostate Cancer Epidemiologist Opened a Restaurant? A Conversation with Lorelei Mucci- A Harvard Scientist, A Mother, A Leader
I always close my interviews with a signature question: "Who should I speak with next?"It’s a small but revealing moment — a window into whom the giants of oncology admire, learn from, and find truly compelling. When I posed the…
CancerWorld #102 (April 2025)
The People Behind the Progress in Oncology is science. But it is also stories. It is policy. It is power. It is knowledge. It is culture. It is trust. And above all, it’s personal. This is the lens through which…
Could this dual approach be the frontier that finally gets immunotherapy to work for MSS colorectal cancer?
It is often said in medicine that the only true constant in facing life-threatening diseases is change. Nowhere is this more evident than in oncology, where advances in chemotherapy, targeted therapies, immunotherapies, and other novel agents continue to spark hope.…
Not too little, not too much… a lesson for cancer prevention from ancient civilisations
“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” This quotation from Hippocrates pops up regularly in writings advocating a…
Delivering cancer care during the pandemic: lessons from the ‘first wave’
“My partner had to be admitted to hospital with neutropenia earlier on in her treatment cycle, and she and I are constantly discussing what to do: whether we should ask about suspending treatment, how the risk/benefit equation adds up, whether…
A global registry for children with cancer and COVID-19
While a deeper knowledge about the impact of COVID-19 disease on cancer patients is essential, sharing information is likewise important. For these purposes, a number of registries, which gather different data including patients’ outcomes or treatment, are being set up around…