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quality of life
Beyond the Final Score: What the Winners Cup Means to Young People With Cancer
For more than 200 young people with cancer from across Europe, a football tournament in Milan offered something that cancer can make difficult to find: a chance to be with friends, feel understood and enjoy being young. At the end…
What the Scan Couldn’t Tell Me
The scan was stable. I remember feeling a quiet sense of satisfaction as I shared the news with my patient and his wife. After all, in oncology, stable disease is something worth celebrating. I had already moved mentally to the…
“Go Be Normal”: The Childhood Cancer Survivor Who Built What Her Family Never Had
When Brett Wilson finished cancer treatment at the age of 12, a hospital nurse walked outside with her and her mother and offered three words of advice: “Go be normal.” Wilson looked at her mother. “What does that mean? Go…
CancerWorld #119 (September 2026)
The history of pediatric oncology is one of extraordinary progress. Children who once had little chance of surviving cancer are now growing into adulthood, building careers, raising families and imagining futures that previous generations could not. But progress has also…
Beyond Anxiety and Depression: A New Framework for Mental Health in Cancer Care
Emerging research suggests that understanding psychological wellbeing in people affected by cancer requires looking beyond traditional diagnostic categories. A cancer diagnosis is far more than a medical event. It can disrupt every aspect of a person's life, reshaping relationships, work,…
The Patient’s Voice May Be One of Oncology’s Best Prognostic Tools
Large meta-analysis suggests patient-reported outcomes complement traditional clinical assessment. Despite advances in imaging, molecular profiling, and biomarkers, accurately estimating how long a patient with cancer is likely to survive remains challenging. Now, a large analysis involving data from more than…
Between Theory and Bedside: What Early Palliative Care in Singapore Reveals About Cancer, Care, and the Limits of Knowledge
On paper, cancer care can be mapped, measured, and modelled. In practice, it is far less contained. For Charis Ng, a trainee health psychologist and PhD student, that gap between theory and lived reality became impossible to ignore during her…
Immunotherapy’s Hidden Burden: Rethinking Toxicity in the Era of Breakthroughs
Immunotherapy has redefined cancer care—offering survival where little once existed, and in some cases, the possibility of long-term remission. But as its use expands across tumor types and earlier lines of treatment, a more complex reality is coming into focus:…
After the Bell: Rethinking Cancer Care Beyond Treatment
As cancer survival improves, a critical gap persists: the period after treatment, where psychological distress, identity disruption, and unmet needs remain insufficiently addressed in routine oncology care. A System Designed for Treatment, Not Transition “We have to be next to…
From Silence to Presence: Dr Christian Ntizimira on Reimagining End-of-Life Care
Dr Christian Ntizimira, MD, MMsGHE, Founder and Executive Director of the African Center for Research on End-of-Life Care (ACREOL), and author of “The Safari Concept: An African Framework on End-of-Life Care,” speaks about dignity, suffering, and reimagining care at the…