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Psycho-Oncology at a Crossroads: From Global Recognition to Real-World Impact
The launch of World Psycho-Oncology Day signals growing momentum behind psychosocial care in cancer, but without structural change, millions of patients will continue to go without the support they need. With the announcement of World Psycho-Oncology Day (WPOD), to be…
CancerWorld | The Max Foundation – Special Issue 2026
25 Years of TKIs in CML: A Revolution and a Responsibility Twenty-five years ago, the arrival of imatinib changed the course of a disease and the lives of countless people diagnosed with it. Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), once defined by…
Reflections on Patient-Centred Decision-Making in Oncology
After more than a decade in oncology practice, I have come to recognise that my professional development has been shaped as much by patients’ stories as by scientific progress. While advances in systemic therapies, diagnostics, and supportive care continue to…
Pancreatic Cancer Europe at 10: Turning the Tide on Europe’s Deadliest Common Cancer
In the quieter corners of European health policy, where attention is often fragmented and political capital fiercely contested, pancreatic cancer has long remained an uncomfortable outlier—aggressive, difficult to detect, and historically underprioritised. Yet, as Europe confronts an evolving cancer burden,…
Nutrition in Cancer Care: Closing the Gap Between Awareness and Action
On 3 February 2025, on the eve of World Cancer Day, Cancer Patients Europe (CPE) hosted a high-level policy event at the European Parliament in Brussels, convened by MEP Michalis Hadjipantela (EPP, Cyprus). The occasion marked the official launch of…
“Medicine is Deeply Relational: The Human Heart of Oncology in the Age of AI”
From genetics to palliative care, clinician-scientist Rita Canário reflects on building a career in Oncology that bridges research, patient care, and the human side of medicine and why this integration is essential for the future of oncology. “I was never…
Isabel Mestres: The Doer
Global health has become very good at diagnosing problems but far less effective at implementing solutions. That gap is where Isabel Mestres has built her career. As CEO of City Cancer Challenge, she is known not as a theorist or…
OncoCorridor
As a medical student, we had a lecture on how to deliver bad news.Then, as an oncology fellow, we had it again.And as frontline clinicians, we practice it every day. “Your child has leukemia…You have cancer…Your child has Ewing sarcoma…You…
CancerWorld #114 (April 2026)
In oncology, we are trained to deliver hope alongside difficult truths. We speak about survival rates, probabilities, and outcomes. In conflict settings, those terms lose stability. What does survival mean when hospitals are destroyed, treatments cannot reach patients, and people…
Lived Experience of People Affected by Cancer
Too Much Hope is a False Hope K. still remembers the moment she heard the diagnosis. The room felt suddenly smaller, the air heavier, and time strangely suspended. “You wake up in a void, alone and scared,” she says. “But…