London Global Cancer Week 2019 – New Solutions to evolving challenges - BMC Series blog

London Global Cancer Week 2019 – New Solutions to evolving challenges - BMC Series blog

Linda Gummlich

Editor at BMC Series

Linda is an Editor for the BMC Series and has been the Editor of BMC Cancer since July 2018. Before joining BioMed Central, Linda completed her joint PhD in altered protein degradation mechanisms in renal cell carcinomas at the Charite University Hospital and Humboldt University in Berlin and then worked for a Berlin-based NGO as program manager. Here Linda designed, launched and developed a successful program to integrate refugees into the German labor market. Linda brings great passion to her work on BMC Cancer and BMC Palliative Care while fervently supporting and promoting open access.

London Global Cancer Week 2019 – New Solutions to evolving challenges

BMC Cancer recently attended the 4th Meeting on ‘Cancer control in low and middle income countries’ as part of the London Global Cancer Week at the Royal Society of Medicine on 25th November 2019. This year’s meeting aimed to increase awareness of successful global cancer collaborations and provide an inspiring forum to discuss future strategies to jointly improve cancer control worldwide. Here we touch upon some highlights of the meeting.

Linda Gummlich 4 Feb 2020

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Increasing recognition for the importance of global cancer control in society is reflected by a growth in global meetings, initiatives and new policies. Dr. Susannah Stanway’s (Consultant Medical Oncology, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust) enthusiastic opening speech was an especially warm welcome to us all at the Royal Society of Medicine on a rather grey Monday morning in November. Dr. Stanway has organised the meeting at the Royal Society of Medicine since 2016, continuously gathering stakeholders and experts in the field and establishing it as an essential meeting in the global oncology agenda. Her passionate engagement across successful global projects on top of her commitments in the clinic, made her the perfect candidate to officially launch the first London Global Cancer Week which ran from 25th-29th November 2019.