Support Matti Aapro in Becoming a UICC Board Member

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While Cancer Makes Its Threats, I Make a Promise - Matti Aapro 

I am a medical oncologist working at the Genolier Cancer Center in Switzerland and Immediate Past President of the European Cancer Organisation (ECO). First and foremost, however, I am a husband, father, grandfather, family member and a friend. I was born in Brazil, where my grandfather had gone from Finland. After secondary school in Switzerland, I married an Italian, and as a result of all that, I speak seven languages. Over the years, I have been fortunate to meet many colleagues in the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) global cancer community.

My experiences around the world have made me keenly aware of how each patient is a member of a family, a community, and a society. We are people, and regardless of the cards life has dealt us, there are inescapable human frailties that can affect us all, illness being one of them.

Every patient I have treated has left a profound and lasting impact on me. Not only do I remember their faces, I remember their joys and anxieties. And in the face of sometimes pain – and death – I made a quiet promise to each of them.

I promised a mother, suffering from late-stage breast cancer, that I would help discover and share best practice for tackling all cancer types. So, I became the founding leader of Sharing Progress in Cancer Care (SPCC) and a Board Member of the European School of Oncology (ESO).

I promised an already fragile grandmother that I would not let older cancer patients become the forgotten. Since then, I have been fighting for more advanced geriatric oncology and currently hold my seat as Board Member of the International Society for Geriatric Oncology (SIOG), which I helped create.

I promised a father, burdened with severe anxiety and chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, that I would do my part to secure physical and psychological support for those facing the frightening uncertainty of cancer. So, I am now Past President of the Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC).

I promised them all, that we would find new and improved forms of treatment, a cure – or the closest thing to it. So, I have been a Board Member of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO).

Many more promises were made, and the potential to fulfil them lies in teamwork with the worldwide cancer community.

Patients cannot be asked to be ‘patient’. Time is never on their side. So, instead of taking steps, let us run with something better.

I respectfully ask for your vote to become a UICC Board Member. I believe that as an international oncologist working across the globe, I can help join the forces needed to achieve UICC’s goals, all of which match my own.

Email us here if you or your organisation wish to support my candidature. And please feel free to directly get in touch with me:

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