Why Did We Start Publishing Healthy Living Articles on Our Website?

The ability not only to know but also to teach what we know is a human privilege and responsibility. Throughout my medical career, I have tried to explain the physical and psychological effects of diseases to patients, their loved ones, and younger colleagues. The first two reasons that come to mind are helping create an informed society that does not fear illness, a fact of life, through the awareness that learning brings, and the pleasure of sharing knowledge.

I have persistently tried many ways to answer questions that patients and relatives have about cancer. To improve education and provide more professional, continuing support through this difficult disease, I introduced the concept of oncology nursing to our country and originated and led the Oncology Education Nursing Project. To explain what cancer is and is not, the importance of early diagnosis, and cancer prevention to wider audiences, we then launched a project reaching tens of thousands of people in our region: cancer schools . Yet this was not enough: habits supporting healthy living and cancer prevention should begin in childhood, so we started participating in science festivals for children and young people. Every project showed me that the need for information was greater than assumed, prompting me to focus on providing information online.

Since 2012, we have described all cancers, their symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment in detail on our website . At the same time, we reported daily developments in oncology, one of medicine’s most dynamic fields. We did not focus solely on treatment: following a primary-care approach, we sought evidence-based answers about preventing cancer, eating to avoid it, and adopting healthy lifestyles, and shared our findings. We wrote thousands of original articles, almost without sleeping day or night. Your positive feedback was our greatest motivation.

A Transformation From Cancer to Healthy Living!

We must admit that teaching also taught us a great deal. Most importantly, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes, responsible for nearly 60-70% of deaths worldwide, share causes. These three major diseases have physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, obesity, smoking, and inadequate medical follow-up in common. Learning how to avoid cancer taught us how to live healthily.

With our new healthy-living approach, we want to take the familiar saying “there are no diseases, only patients” a step further and embrace society as a whole. Any healthy person may one day become ill, and with today’s medical knowledge, nearly every patient is also a candidate for a healthy future. Staying faithful to accurate information and clear explanations, we will continue writing about healthy living, prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment options for common diseases, supporting physical and mental well-being.