Cancer in Africa

In Tanzania in the early 2000s, healthcare for children with cancer was very limited. The majority of affected children never reached a treatment centre and 90% of those who did, ultimately died1. Today, childhood cancer care has been transformed with…

Gevorg Tamamyan: Take me back before medicine. Who was Cesaltina Lorenzoni as a child in Mozambique, and what was the moment you knew you wanted to be a doctor? Cesaltina Ferreira Lorenzoni: I was born and raised in the capital…

The history of pediatric oncology is one of extraordinary progress. Children who once had little chance of surviving cancer are now growing into adulthood, building careers, raising families and imagining futures that previous generations could not. But progress has also…