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From death to discrimination sentence: when surviving cancer equals being denied basic rights
From death to discrimination sentence: when surviving cancer equals being denied basic rights
Cancer has turned my life upside down . It touched my body, my deepest identity. I started questioning myself about the meaning of life, about death, about what it means to have a changing body that would soon undergo major therapies and go through early menopause.
Fighting cancer: when survival depends on geography and education
Fighting cancer: when survival depends on geography and education
Calin lives in the Romanian city of Cluj. He suffers from melanoma and his mother died from colorectal cancer, aged 58. “It took two months just for a colonoscopy,” he recalls.
Painting and writing to fight cancer: the importance of being “more than a patient”
Painting and writing to fight cancer: the importance of being “more than a patient”
When Salvatore was diagnosed with brain cancer, he made headlines all over the world . International outlets like CNN and the BBC presented him as “the hacker who decrypted his medical records to create his open-source therapy”.
Early signs support revolutionary potential of EU clinical trials regulation
Early signs support revolutionary potential of EU clinical trials regulation
Evidence from early adoption of digitisation central to the new European Union Clinical Trials Regulation suggests that the Regulation will revolutionise the region’s competitiveness .
Breast cancer: innovative 3D device to boost research on metastasis
Breast cancer: innovative 3D device to boost research on metastasis
The spread of cancer cells to other parts of the body, known as metastasis , is the main cause of cancer-related deaths. According to the US National Cancer Institute, in 2018 there were 9.