In a 2016 Voices post, Geta Roman wrote about the daily struggle to deliver timely and high-quality diagnostics and care in a health system with a per capita healthcare expenditure of only €400 a year [more]
Key messages from the e-ESO faculty The pandemic is here. Italy is further along the curve than the rest of Europe. That gives other countries a small breathing space to prepare for when the tsunami [more]
Two comprehensive reports addressing cancer care in Europe have been published recently: «Past and current approaches to cancer care may not be sufficient for tomorrow. We face limited resources and a demand for cancer that [more]
Umberto Veronesi passed away on the 8th of November 2016, at the end of a career dedicated to fighting cancer. During his long and productive life he made significant contributions to improving cancer care and [more]
Being an oncologist in Romania is an extreme job. Being a patient with cancer in Romania is an extreme experience. We have 250 oncologists to care for at least 500,000 people with cancer (the figures [more]
As founding editor of Cancer World, Kathy Redmond set out to open up debate on the future of cancer care in Europe. She started a conversation that a full range of professionals and patient advocates [more]
Broadcaster Katrin Zöfel showed the value of good journalism with her half-hour broadcast for Deutschlandfunk, German national radio, which told the stories of people living with long-term effects of being treated for cancer. More than [more]
Every year thousands of people die unnecessarily from cancer because their care is sub-optimal or arrives too late. Europe has known where the problems are for more than a decade and has the knowledge to [more]
Most cancer deaths are in the developing world and the problem is set to escalate, yet cancer has never received the attention given diseases such as AIDS and malaria. Equipping less-developed health systems with the [more]