Christos Tsagkaris: The manifesto on improving cancer care in conflict-impacted populations

This document summarises the lessons of the first Global Summit on War and Cancer and is signed by a group of experts and stakeholders including the Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Gebreyesus, and HRH Princess Dina Mired, in her capacity as past president of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)

I had the privilege to deliver a presentation about the EU Cancer Mission during the conference and contribute respectively to the manuscript.

If war can make words change their meaning (Thucydides), then it is high time to use words to address and change the detrimental impact of war on cancer care

Grateful to all the collaborators, and particularly to Dr. Jemma Arakelyan, who led this effort, as well as to the Institute of Cancer and Crisis (ICC) and OncoDaily, who organized the conference”