Global Oncology

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…

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…

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…

For many people with cancer in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the greatest barrier is not that treatment is unavailable. It is that the path to treatment is fragmented, difficult to navigate, and easy to fall out of. A person…

When Gloria Chiniere Okwu discovered a lump in her left breast in 2016, she could not have imagined that the diagnosis would eventually make her one of the most influential patient advocates in Nigeria. Today, Gloria is a cancer survivor,…

When Martha Raymond, the Founder and CEO of the GI Cancers Alliance and the Raymond Foundation,  was seven years old, she lost her father to colon cancer. Years later, her mother's illness would change the course of her own life.…

We often describe progress in oncology through the language of discovery. Scientific breakthroughs. Technological innovation. Deeper biological insight. These advances have transformed medicine, helping millions of people live longer and better than ever before. Yet alongside every scientific breakthrough, a…

Karen Nakawala spent decades telling other people's stories. As one of Zambia's well-known broadcasters, she knew how to command a microphone, connect with audiences and give voice to people whose experiences might otherwise go unheard. Whether presenting a live radio…

Millions of cancer patients live within reach of life saving radiation treatment. Millions more live nowhere near it. The research maps just how wide, and how consequential, that gap has become. Radiotherapy is a cornerstone of modern cancer care. Around…