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The Right to Be Forgotten: Why Voluntary Measures are Not Enough for Cancer Survivors
On World Cancer Day, Commissioners Várhelyi and Albuquerque reaffirmed the European Commission’s commitment to the right to be forgotten for cancer survivors. Yet their announcement of non-binding guidance to financial institutions in 2026 falls significantly short of what survivors and…
No Woman Left Behind: Dr Miriam Mutebi and the Quest for Equitable Cancer Care in Africa
In a breast clinic in Africa, fear often arrives before diagnosis. Women arrive convinced they have cancer. Some have discovered a lump only days earlier; others have lived with symptoms for years. Many have never been taught breast awareness. Others…
A Survivor’s Perspective: San Diego’s Rise as a National Cancer Research Hub
How policy, philanthropy, and scientific collaboration are reshaping the cancer research landscape and why early detection can be the difference between life and death. Twenty years ago, I received a diagnosis that changed everything and led me to dedicate the…
Mission 2027: Mission is Possible
The Minister of Health of Rwanda Dr Sabin Nsanzimana on medicine, 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, leadership, workforce, technology, and the ambition to eliminate cervical cancer The latest interview for CancerWorld features Dr Sabin Nsanzimana, Minister of Health of Rwanda, physician, epidemiologist,…
Sustainability, the Architecture of Equitable Cancer Innovation
In oncology today, innovation advances at a breathtaking pace, yet the capacity to deliver it to all who need it lags behind. Each new therapeutic frontier exposes the same paradox: the deeper our biological insight becomes, the wider the gulf…
Europe’s cancer agenda: how we keep it a priority in changing times
“I feel I’m among friends… we are all fighting the same battles.” This is how the former European Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides greeted her audience at the European Cancer Summit at a session on November 20th devoted to her great…