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Cancer Vaccines: From Missed Promise to Second Chance
In oncology, some ideas arrive too early. For decades, cancer vaccines were one of them. The concept was elegant: train the immune system to recognise tumour cells, much like it recognises viruses, and allow it to eliminate disease with precision…
Psycho-Oncology at a Crossroads: From Global Recognition to Real-World Impact
The launch of World Psycho-Oncology Day signals growing momentum behind psychosocial care in cancer, but without structural change, millions of patients will continue to go without the support they need. With the announcement of World Psycho-Oncology Day (WPOD), to be…
CancerWorld | The Max Foundation – Special Issue 2026
25 Years of TKIs in CML: A Revolution and a Responsibility Twenty-five years ago, the arrival of imatinib changed the course of a disease and the lives of countless people diagnosed with it. Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), once defined by…
Reflections on Patient-Centred Decision-Making in Oncology
After more than a decade in oncology practice, I have come to recognise that my professional development has been shaped as much by patients’ stories as by scientific progress. While advances in systemic therapies, diagnostics, and supportive care continue to…
Pancreatic Cancer Europe at 10: Turning the Tide on Europe’s Deadliest Common Cancer
In the quieter corners of European health policy, where attention is often fragmented and political capital fiercely contested, pancreatic cancer has long remained an uncomfortable outlier—aggressive, difficult to detect, and historically underprioritised. Yet, as Europe confronts an evolving cancer burden,…
Nutrition in Cancer Care: Closing the Gap Between Awareness and Action
On 3 February 2025, on the eve of World Cancer Day, Cancer Patients Europe (CPE) hosted a high-level policy event at the European Parliament in Brussels, convened by MEP Michalis Hadjipantela (EPP, Cyprus). The occasion marked the official launch of…
Isabel Mestres: The Doer
Global health has become very good at diagnosing problems but far less effective at implementing solutions. That gap is where Isabel Mestres has built her career. As CEO of City Cancer Challenge, she is known not as a theorist or…
CancerWorld #114 (April 2026)
In oncology, we are trained to deliver hope alongside difficult truths. We speak about survival rates, probabilities, and outcomes. In conflict settings, those terms lose stability. What does survival mean when hospitals are destroyed, treatments cannot reach patients, and people…
Lived Experience of People Affected by Cancer
Too Much Hope is a False Hope K. still remembers the moment she heard the diagnosis. The room felt suddenly smaller, the air heavier, and time strangely suspended. “You wake up in a void, alone and scared,” she says. “But…
Translating Global Excellence into Local Impact: Dr Fatjona Kraja and the Challenge of Transforming Radiation Oncology in Albania
Radiation oncology is one of the most technologically sophisticated and intellectually demanding disciplines in modern medicine. Yet, for Dr Fatjona Kraja, newly appointed Faculty member of the European School of Oncology (ESO) College, the field is defined not only by…