On the 24th of October we continue the session of our online symposium for cancer patients that started on the 10th of October with direct broadcasting. This online symposium is being organised through and for (ex)cancer patients and their loved ones. Various speakers, patients as well as professionals being doctors, oncologists or therapists give you…Continue reading Grip on your life after being hit by cancer – Online symposium, October 24, 2020 →

What makes Inspire2Live so different from other patient groups? And consequently what will make the Hubs different from other patient initiatives? This is an important question. It concerns our identity, is about who and what we want to be. This is my take: Inspire2Live upholds the idea that in its operation it mirrors the means…Continue reading What is our identity →

With artificial intelligence and personalized medicine playing an increasingly important role in today’s healthcare, one cannot help but wonder about the regulation of these fields. As a Patient Advocate, I am asked to analyze the pros and cons of the ‘checks and balances’ system that exists today. According to my opinion too much regulation may…Continue reading Risks, costs, benefits and trust in healthcare: why and when do we trust →

I wrote my first update (blog at the time) in 2010. It did not happen naturally. Peter wanted a verifiable record of the trips we made and the progress we hoped to achieve. It was meant to be a formal management-outline. I had written hundreds of those management outlines in my former job. I had…Continue reading Hub update: Europe →

Online Patient Advocate Meeting on September 7th 2020 Carin A. Uyl-de Groot studied Health Care Policy and Management at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. From March 1990 onwards she is working at the institute for Medical Technology Assessment/Department of Health Care Policy and Management at the Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam where she is currently professor. Her…Continue reading Fair drug pricing →

When initiating the action plan for Latin America, it is of vital importance to identify the challenges that the region faces in terms of oncology. Latin America is made up of 20 countries and has a total of 650 million inhabitants, all have different health policies, economies, and budgets dedicated to health. Health in Latin…Continue reading Hub update: Latin America →

Sometimes people see Inspire2Live as the driving force behind criticism on the pharmaceutical industry when it comes to the prices of especially newly developed treatments for cancer patients. Although sometimes that happens to be the case, it most certainly isn’t our main focus. As patients we even don’t care very much about pricing. Like our…Continue reading Pharmaceutical industry, friend or foe? →

Concentratie van kankerzorg.. Inspire2Live streeft hier al jaren naar. Zo kun je de kwaliteit verbeteren én patiënten helpen met informatie over ziekenhuiskeuze. De website www.inspire2go.nl informeert en ondersteunt patiënten bij de keuze voor het beste ziekenhuis. Naar verschillen tussen de behandelingen en de resultaten in verschillende centra is ook veel onderzoek gedaan. Dit artikel op…Continue reading Concentratie van kankerzorg →

Every two weeks an update is published of the Hub initiative. Hubs are created in Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica, New England (USA), Armenia, Egypt, Kenia, Nigeria and Ghana (Africa), Singapore, Australia and elsewhere. Africa “What does the cancer world learn from non-Western countries?” and “What does Inspire2Live do for non-Western countries”? These were questions raised…Continue reading Hub update: Africa →

On our Inspire2Live Annual Congress, Olufunmilayo Olopade (she also responds to Funmi) picks up the tenet of the keynote lecture ‘We need to focus on prevention’ by Bob Weinberg She grew up in Nigeria, where resources are low, and she learned medicine based on the message: ‘prevention is better cure’. That’s the area of her research,…Continue reading Keynote lecture: Breast Cancer Risk Assessment and individual treatments →