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European School of Oncology
What the Scan Couldn’t Tell Me
The scan was stable. I remember feeling a quiet sense of satisfaction as I shared the news with my patient and his wife. After all, in oncology, stable disease is something worth celebrating. I had already moved mentally to the…
44 Years of Vision. A New Era for Oncology Education
After more than four decades under the leadership of Alberto Costa, the European School of Oncology enters a new chapter with Rossella Blasi as CEO. The transition brings together the legacy of Umberto Veronesi’s founding vision and the challenge of…
CancerWorld #120 (October 2026)
Science is moving at extraordinary speed. We can identify mutations once invisible, develop drugs that destroy proteins previously considered untouchable, and transform diagnoses that once offered little hope. Yet a patient can still wait too long for treatment. A brilliant…
Building Beyond the Bedside: Dr Mohamed Emam Sobeih’s Vision for the Future of Oncology
From crowded oncology wards in Cairo to international leadership in cancer education, Dr. Mohamed Emam Sobeih has built a career shaped by one central belief: treating cancer requires more than medicine alone. At the National Cancer Institute Egypt, where Dr…
Rewriting the Surgical Narrative: Dr Lazaros Papadopoulos On Breast Cancer Care, Mentorship, and the Meaning of Small Changes
“Life is often a sequence of chance events, and many times we are called to rewrite our own narrative.” For Dr Lazaros Papadopoulos, that idea is not abstract. It is the thread that connects a childhood shaped by admiration for…
Umberto Veronesi and the European School Of Oncology
The idea of creating a "European School of Oncology" came to Umberto Veronesi in the mid-1970s, when the Americans announced the effective implementation of the strategic plan against cancer signed by President Nixon in 1973, the National Cancer Act. He…
CancerWorld #109 (November 2025)
Where leadership, legacy, and discovery meet the future of care Every issue of CancerWorld tells a story about connection, between science and humanity, between personal courage and collective change. The November edition celebrates those who lead with conviction, those who…
Social Media in Oncology – Between Empowerment and Risk
In oncology, communication has always been central – but in the digital age, it increasingly unfolds online. Platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and X have become arenas where cancer journeys are shared, interpreted – and sometimes dangerously distorted. For patients…
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…