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Advocate Story

Survival Is Not the End of the Story

Survival Is Not the End of the Story Dr Françoise Meunier — Vice-President, Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine · Founder, Ending Discrimination Against Cancer Survivors · Former Director General of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) When I graduated as medical doctor in 1974, the outlook for many people diagnosed with […]

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Researcher Story

The Person Behind Row 214

Eva Koderman — PhD candidate, Amsterdam UMC (MULTINET lab) Somewhere on my work computer is a spreadsheet with a few thousand rows. Age. Tumor location. Surgery date. Walking ability at twelve months. To run my models, I have to treat these as numbers. But behind row 214 is someone who woke up from surgery and […]

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Patient Story

Why I’m Fighting for Equal Access to Clinical Trials

As a European citizen and cancer patient participating in a clinical trial, I’ve seen firsthand how research creates opportunities where none existed before. In April 2024, I got diagnosed with a brain tumor. It happened almost by accident. I’d ended up in Barcelona, went to the ER for a bad headache — the hypochondriac in […]

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