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European School of Oncology
ESO College Voices Contest 2025: Social media – friend or foe for cancer patients? – Winners Announced
This year’s ESO College Voices Contest proved once again that doctors can also be excellent cancer writers. For this year’s contest, we received 27 proposals from ESO College members across 20 countries, each elaborating on the chosen topic: "Social media –…
Curious, Rejected,Accepted: An ESO Fellow’s Road to Becoming an Oncologist
It was 2018, and I was a fifth-year medical student at Yerevan State Medical University. Word spread that our new oncology professor was someone extraordinary: Gevorg Tamamyan - a Harvard-trained, Nature-published pioneer of pediatric oncology in Armenia and president of…
Alberto Costa: The Father of Seven Children
“I mean, while I was reading the book you gave me about Umberto Veronesi,” I said, “there’s this expression: As you set out for Ithaca, hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. You wrote…
Hansjörg Senn of St Gallen: A practice-changing career
The speed of progress in breast cancer – not just survival, but also quality of life and survivorship – has been the envy of the wider cancer community for many decades. The factors contributing to this relative success are many…