by Peter Kapitein | Feb 20, 2013 | In the media
‘Patient Advocacy’: what does that actually mean? That’s something I hear more and more often. Patient Advocacy means patients, their friends, families and loved ones. Patient Advocacy means everything that matters in ensuring patients and their loved ones get...
by Peter Kapitein | Feb 17, 2013 | In the media
Inspire2Live, an international organization that supports efforts to get cancer under control and the initiator of large-scale charity events like Alpe d’HuZes, organized a conference in Amsterdam on January 17 and 18, 2013 on the prevention of cancer. The main...
by Peter Kapitein | Dec 7, 2012 | In the media
Working for a better life for people living with cancer and for their loved ones is the mainstay of our mission. With every new step we take, we first ask ourselves ‘What’s the benefit for the patient?’ Inspire2Live is the umbrella organization that coordinates...
by Peter Kapitein | Nov 9, 2012 | In the media
How do you treat cancer? This question has been a hard one for thousands of years. In his brilliantly written The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddharta Mukherjee recounts how long mankind has struggled with this problem. In recent decades, however, most attention has...
by Peter Kapitein | Sep 12, 2012 | In the media
A short while ago, I heard an American patient advocate say, ‘I can’t solve your problem for you, but we might!’ A few short words that make clear what’s important about cooperation. Cooperation – so often preached but so seldom practised....