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Pediatric Oncology
CancerWorld | My Child Matters – Special Issue 2025
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…
The Person Behind the Legend: The Portrait of Professor Andrea Ferrari
When I started my fellowship in Italy, I knew I would meet Professor Andrea Ferrari, the Legend whose work I had studied line by line. I thought I was prepared. I had read his papers… But nothing in the literature…
Suheir Rasul: Protecting Human Dignity
When Suheir Rasul talks about her journey, you don’t hear a linear career path—you hear a story of transformation, resilience, and service. Today, as Senior Vice President of ALSAC Global, the fundraising and awareness organization of St. Jude Children’s Research…
Curious, Rejected,Accepted: An ESO Fellow’s Road to Becoming an Oncologist
It was 2018, and I was a fifth-year medical student at Yerevan State Medical University. Word spread that our new oncology professor was someone extraordinary: Gevorg Tamamyan - a Harvard-trained, Nature-published pioneer of pediatric oncology in Armenia and president of…
A Promise Kept: How Samvel Danielyan Lifted Pediatric Cancer Survival from Zero to 70%
In a country bruised by war, in a hospital crumbling under the weight of poverty and silence, one man made an impossible promise and kept it. Samvel Danielyan’s story is not the story of easy heroes. It is a story…