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Twenty years ago, the My Child Matters (MCM) program was launched by the Sanofi Espoir Foundation (today Foundation S). This program aimed to improve access to treatment for children and their families in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Twenty years…

When Isabel Deprince, a formerly successful model, describes the moments she feels most like herself, she doesn’t mention spotlights or runways. She talks about being alone in her studio, sleeves rolled up, paint drying on her hands. Painting, she says,…

Precision medicine, immunotherapy, and cellular therapies have reshaped the landscape of oncology, turning once-fatal diagnoses into chronic, or even curable, conditions. These breakthroughs represent extraordinary scientific progress and a deepening understanding of cancer biology. Yet beneath this success runs a…

“When this tumor entered our lives, nothing felt stable anymore — we had to rebuild our days piece by piece," a caregiver recalls. Why brain cancer survivorship needs to move center stage — as research pushes into AI, precision medicine…

When the first signals of modern immunotherapy began to emerge a little over a decade ago, many of us realised that oncology was about to change forever. I still remember the sense of astonishment when we saw the first durable…

Oncology has seen tremendous progress over the last few decades. Yet, for advanced solid cancers, some new treatments offer only a few weeks of survival benefit. Meanwhile, the amount of time spent in pursuing these new treatments can be substantial.…

At 17, Annet Namubiru’s life changed drastically. Then a secondary school student, she began to fall ill without anyone understanding why. “I was at school and started feeling weak and tired,” she recalls. “As you know, when a girl of…

Workplace discrimination remains one of the most persistent and underrecognized challenges faced by individuals diagnosed with cancer. While advances in treatment have significantly improved survival rates and quality of life, many patients and survivors encounter a different kind of battle…

“Cancer is like a stallion: either you ride the stallion, or the stallion is going to ride on you.” — Shrenik Shah, Stage IV Laryngeal Cancer Survivor, 6x TEDx Speaker & Global Goodwill Ambassador When I step on the stage,…

Many people diagnosed with cancer often wonder what “caused” their disease and whether they could have done anything to prevent it. Typically, the risk of developing cancer is determined by a combination of genetics and environmental exposures, causing errors in…