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Making Cancer Visible in Lusophone Africa: The Pathologist Who Built a System
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…
Loizos Loizou: The Lifesaver
How Loizos Loizou helped build pediatric oncology in Cyprus from almost nothing—and why decades later, he is turning that experience outward. For more than four decades, Prof. Loizos Loizou has stood on the front line of pediatric oncology. But when he…
CancerWorld | My Child Matters – Special Issue 2025
Twenty years ago, the My Child Matters (MCM) program was launched by the Sanofi Espoir Foundation (today Foundation S). This program aimed to improve access to treatment for children and their families in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Twenty years…
Systematic review fills knowledge gaps about metastatic breast cancer
In breast cancer the risk of metastasis is higher among women diagnosed at a younger age, those with larger tumours at diagnosis and those with luminal B breast cancer. The study, abstract 0R-91, presented at the Advanced Breast Cancer Sixth International…
CCC-19 and TERAVOLT studies show strength and limits of research on cancer and COVID-19
The virtual scientific program of the 2020 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting2020 hosted a special session on cancer and COVID-19 pandemic. Data from the Thoracic cancERs international coVid 19 cOLlaboraTion (TERAVOLT) registry and from the COVID-19 and…
Real-world evidence in oncology has benefits (and risks)
Despite some weaknesses, real-world data can have a pivotal role in oncology, helping researchers and physicians to better understand the efficacy of anti-cancer treatments and how to manage the side effects. This is the position expressed in a commentary published…