Caught in the act

Caught in the act

Every now and then I give an update on the World Campus’ strategic focus. Usually I look back. However sometimes it’s better to write whilst we’re “caught in the act”, rather than after having reached a new level. We’re on the verge of moving to a new level so I will...
European In-Vitro Diagnostics Regulation (IVDR)

European In-Vitro Diagnostics Regulation (IVDR)

Our perspective on the upcoming European In-Vitro Diagnostics Regulation (IVDR) All our Inspire2Live patient advocates are volunteers. I lost my dad when he was only 47 and other patient advocates are patients themselves. Through our proximity to the tragedy of...
What cancer does

What cancer does

Cancer is a killer. Cancer invalidates people and destroys the lives of individuals and families. Just like wars, we will never have peace with cancer. Since Nixon declared the war on cancer in 1971, the notion that cancer is war has become anathema. One naturally...
Every cancer patient has the right to rehab

Every cancer patient has the right to rehab

I have known the Tegenkracht (Dutch for “counterforce”) foundation since 2007. I will never forget how, as a cancer patient, I gave a presentation in the canteen of the Amsterdam Sloten cycling track, together with a few others, about how I had “rehabilitated” myself....
Who are we

Who are we

This month we have our 10th World Campus meeting. But who are we? We are a very heterogeneous group. Let me try to make sense of who we are, not by stressing what we have in common or elucidating what common denominator binds us, but by looking at what makes us...