global health

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 Isabel Mestres: The Doer

Global health has become very good at diagnosing problems but far less effective at implementing solutions. That gap is where Isabel Mestres has built her career. As CEO of City Cancer Challenge,…

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From Dalian to Houston and Back to Yemen: Bridging the Global Oncology Divide

A Global Summit, a Personal Reckoning At the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Leadership Summit in Singapore, discussions moved rapidly from antibody–drug conjugates to next-generation sequencing and the expanding role of…

Medicine

The Day Immunotherapy Went Off-Patent

In oncology, some milestones arrive with applause. Others arrive quietly. This year, one of the most important cancer drugs of the modern era begins to lose its monopoly. Nivolumab, one of the…

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Bente Mikkelsen: “Success is Something We Build Together”

From the bedside to global reform, and why equity must be engineered, not hoped for “I think I chose medicine because it gave all the opportunities to address people, both at a…

News

CancerWorld #113 (March 2026)

Scientific discovery drives oncology forward, but progress only truly begins when knowledge is turned into action. Every issue of CancerWorld explores the people, ideas, and systems shaping the future of oncology. Scientific…

Policy

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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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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The Unstoppable Jay: Jayasree K. Iyer’s Global Crusade for Equitable Cancer Care

Jayasree K. Iyer doesn’t pause when asked what keeps her awake at night. “It’s unacceptable that today we have treatments when 80% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to them,” and…

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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…

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Cervical cancer elimination efforts boosted by simpler ways to identify and treat pre-cancerous lesions

Project sites in seven low-income countries have reached the 90% targets set by the World Health Organization (WHO) for treating women identified with pre-cancerous lesions. This success was achieved using a model…