When Stella Kyriakides took on the post of EU Health Commissioner in September 2019, Europe’s cancer community knew they could trust her to fight their cause. Within months she was launching a public consultation on [more]
Many tributes have been paid to Lynn Faulds Wood, the co-founder and first president of the European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC), who has died aged 72. She had a profound influence on giving voice to [more]
Roger Wilson is a leading voice in cancer patient advocacy. He has been living with a recurrent sarcoma for 20 years, and is a co-founder of Sarcoma Patients Euronet. He is on the faculty of [more]
If detected early, 80/90% of head and neck cancers can be cured. Yet lack of awareness means that two out of three cases are picked up late. The Make Sense campaign takes a message of [more]
As founding president of Europa Donna, Gloria Freilich helped transform attitudes towards patient advocacy. She would like to see further progress and advises that her softly softly approach is the way to go. Download full [more]
Patient groups are uniquely placed to challenge fears and misperceptions that hamper prevention and contribute to late diagnoses, poor treatment and the social isolation of patients. Acting locally but using the Internet they are now [more]
Keeping your life together when you have cancer is hard. To achieve this and still find the energy to work with other patients to influence decisions that shape the services and treatments you rely on [more]
Clifton Leaf sparked a lively public debatewith a hard-hitting cover story for Fortune magazine, which asserted that America’s war on cancer’ is being lost. He calls on the cancer research community to show stronger leadership, [more]
Romania’s forgotten cancer patients erupted onto the public scene when they staged a demonstration outside the Ministry of Health in May. Things will never be the same again… Download full article
Doctors don’t know best if they haven’t been trained. Embarrassment isn’t the reason why colon cancer is picked up late. People will watch TV programmes that talk sense about cancer. Journalist and cancer survivor Lynn [more]