Breast Cancer Incidence and Registry in Iran

Breast Cancer Incidence and Registry in Iran

In Iran, cancer, after cardiovascular diseases and motor vehicle accidents ranks third among the most common causes of death. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and the median age of diagnosis with breast cancer is a decade earlier than in high-income...
A Patient Advocate’s view

A Patient Advocate’s view

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.’ Howard Zinn Something terrible happened in healthcare that doesn’t benefit patients. Actually, it is what we patient advocates call ‘Dying is safer’. For some of the stakeholders in...
Bottom-Up Cancer Support for ALL

Bottom-Up Cancer Support for ALL

The World Campus is operational since September 2020. We have been joined by my many countries and more are to follow*. Our spearheads are science, peer facilitation, prevention in action and BUCS for all. Today’s update will be about the latter: Bottom-Up-Cancer...
Inspire2Live project Open Source Pharma

Inspire2Live project Open Source Pharma

A progress update It started out as a distant dream, but more and more experts are coming on board, and financial funding is being concretely discussed with strong partners. So here is an update on what it is and where we stand with the Open Source Pharma project. The...
Cancer Registries for Action

Cancer Registries for Action

Introduction Over the recent past, efforts aimed at getting a good picture of the global burden of cancer has brought into focus disparities in the availability of data among different regions. Unlike the situation in developing countries, many of the industrialized...