health equity

Europe has never had more powerful tools against cancer. But progress means little if patients cannot reach them in time. Cancer has never moved at the speed of bureaucracy. Today, science can identify molecular alterations that were once invisible. Biomarker…

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…

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…

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…

What moving across eight countries taught me about survivorship, resilience, and the hidden barriers facing young adult cancer survivors. When Cancer Changes Everything Having cancer means that the life you know—your dreams, hobbies, relationships, and plans for the future—may suddenly…

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.…

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…