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Owning our successes is how we secure the future of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan

A surge in actions across the EU to improve cancer prevention, screening, and care of patients and survivors shows the success of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. We know that. To ensure continued…

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Europe’s cancer agenda: how we keep it a priority in changing times

“I feel I’m among friends… we are all fighting the same battles.” This is how the former European Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides greeted her audience at the European Cancer Summit at a…

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Young-onset digestive cancers: this is how we improve the quality of care

“I had very severe symptoms. I had jaundice, I had itching – symptoms that could definitely indicate something related to the liver, or quite severe disease – but because of my age…

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Somewhere to care for Gaza’s cancer patients: the head of the service calls for a ‘field hospital’

In the devastating health situation in Gaza, with a population continuously displaced, short of food and shelter, and living in trauma and fear, cancer patients need all the support they can get.…

Obituaries

Craig Jordan: father of tamoxifen, discoverer of SERMs, legend in his own time 1947-2024

The extraordinary career of Virgil Craig Jordan, Dallas/Fort Worth Living Legend Chair of Cancer Research, one of the ‘Four for the Millennium’ in women’s health, Order of the British Empire, Companion of…

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Making sense of recent progress in advanced breast cancer

Every two years breast cancer specialists and patient advocates gather at the Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) International Consensus Conference to discuss challenges and uncertainties in treatment and care of people with advanced…

Obituaries

John Ryan: a true public health champion

Europe’s public health and cancer communities have been paying tribute to John Ryan, former Deputy Director General of European Commission Health Directorate, following his untimely death at the age of 65. Ryan…

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Further and faster: ECO mobilises to accelerate momentum from Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan

“All over Europe new initiatives are being triggered. New communities of action are being formed, from young cancer trainees taking part in interspecialty training together, to cancer centres in every country getting…

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Aleksandra Filipovic: where scientific innovation meets holistic care

An oncologist committed to delivering a very personal, holistic care, Aleksandra Filipovic has grown into her current role at PureTech Health – a clinical stage biopharma company – where she is Head…

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Advocating for accessible cancer care in the global South: are we doing this all wrong?

“You have to convince the people with their hands on the levers of power. They don’t see things as we see them. They have other problems on their minds…”  Ten years after…