Gevorg Tamamyan, Chair of the Department of Hematology and Pediatric Oncology at Yerevan State Medical University and Editor-in-Chief of OncoDaily, shared a post on LinkedIn։
“War! One of the most horrible words! As a physician, you can try to save one life, a hundred lives, but a bomb hits and kills more than you could save during your entire career. And the worst thing is that you feel useless, because you are not able to change that reality.
For cancer patients, the situation is even worse! They suffer the most! Patients who could be saved are not. They suffer from pain, from lack of treatment…
Two years ago, after the 1st Global Summit on War and Cancer organized by OncoDaily and the The Institute of Cancer and Crisis (ICC), we came up with “A Manifesto on Improving Cancer Care in Conflict-Impacted Populations,” which was published in The Lancet and co-authored by the World Health Organization Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The manifesto suggested concrete steps on how we could help cancer patients affected by conflict. Now we need to realize it!
Remarkable work has been done by individuals, organizations and groups. But no coordinated global mechanism exists to systematically connect treatment capacity to patients in conflict zones – until now. And now is the time!
OncoCorridor – a global network connecting cancer patients in conflict zones to treatment centers worldwide.
Launching on May 18, 2026, in Geneva, Switzerland, during the World Health Assembly.
More information coming soon.”
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