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Cary Adams: A Career of Change, Changing Careers

He is passionate about the mission of UICC. *** When Cary Adams tells the story of how his career began, it doesn’t start with a calling in oncology. It starts with a…

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Gentle with People. Precise with Cancer

Each evening, after a day leading one of Italy’s busiest radiotherapy departments, Prof. Andrea Filippi, Head of the Radiation Oncology Unit at the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan, and the Associate…

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Sustainability, the Architecture of Equitable Cancer Innovation 

In oncology today, innovation advances at a breathtaking pace, yet the capacity to deliver it to all who need it lags behind. Each new therapeutic frontier exposes the same paradox: the deeper…

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Hosams Abu Meri: From Mountain Village in Lebanon to the Heart of Latvian Health Reform

When Dr. Hosams Abu Meri walks into a clinic room in Latvia, patients see something very unusual. The person doing their gastroscopy or colonoscopy is not only a gastroenterologist, he is also…

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Judy Habib: Named for Hope 

“Yes,” she said. “I was named Judy after St. Jude.” When she was old enough to learn who St. Jude was, she remembers the moment it landed with a child’s blunt logic.…

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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…

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“I Live for Two”: Isabel’s Daydreaming World Between Grief and Light

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,…

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Common Sense Oncology: Putting Patients Back at the Center in the Era of Cancer Innovation

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…

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Surviving the Tumor, Living with the Impact

“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…

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Beyond the Checkpoint: What Comes After PD-1?

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…