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Shrenik Shah: The Voice That Transcends Sound

“Cancer is like a stallion: either you ride the stallion, or the stallion is going to ride on you.” — Shrenik Shah, Stage IV Laryngeal Cancer Survivor, 6x TEDx Speaker & Global…

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ACT for Children:A Global Initiative to Tackle Inequities in Pediatric Cancer

The disparity in childhood cancer outcomes is one of the world’s most pressing health inequities. While over 80% of children with cancer are cured in high-income countries (HICs), survival drops to less…

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‘I feel guilty sometimes’: a young carer reflects on three years of a losing battle to save his mum

In October 2020 when I was 16, our family life changed dramatically when my mother was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. She had known about a lump in her breast for a…

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Voices from Gaza: caught between conflict and cancer

In every conflict, it is the most vulnerable who suffer the most. The great majority of Gaza’s population of two million now live in terrible conditions, with poor sanitation, limited access to…

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A more excellent way: Integration of science, medicine and holistic practices in Oncology and Life

The emotion is palpable as these words come through. I remember eagerly awaiting the new issue of Cancerworld when I was a medical student, at Serbia's Niš University, to read the fascinating…

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Voices from WOF: “We have to shift from the thinking: we’ll tell everybody what to do and they will all get better”

What progress can we point to? I think there has been a lot of progress and it has been incremental. Ten years ago, one of the biggest obstacles was the belief that…

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Voices from WOF: “We need another approach to funding, where governments together with development banks play the overarching role”

What progress can we point to? Firstly, there is more awareness in the community about cancer, and that cancer is becoming increasingly a problem of developing countries. Fifteen years ago everyone was…

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Voices from WOF: “We need to ensure we have accountability, and simplify the metrics on what success looks like”

What progress can we point to? I think it has been a fabulous 10 years. We’ve really seen that the awareness and global political commitment is much stronger than 10 years ago.…

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Voices from WOF: “We need to make care affordable and strengthen our health workforce”

What progress can we point to? I think there has been a tremendous amount of progress in understanding the dimensions and distribution of cancer as a growing global threat. Not only about…

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Voices from WOF: “In this post-Covid world we have new opportunities to harness technology”

What progress can we point to? In today’s global health world, we do now understand that noncommunicable diseases [NCDs] are a priority, and within NCDs, that cancer is the highest priority. But…