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UNDERGROUND PRESS | 9 June 2025
The initiative also highlighted the critical work of the Living with Cancer SA registry — a patient-driven, confidential database designed to improve care and advocacy efforts nationwide. Anyone affected by cancer, from patients and survivors to family members and caregivers, could add their voice to a growing movement aimed at driving meaningful change.
BIZCOMMUNITY| 28 May 2025
This May and June, Old Mutual Property is putting the spotlight on cancer in a bold and interactive way. Through its support of Living with Cancer SA, eight major malls in five different provinces under its banner will become vibrant hubs for community-led cancer awareness, reflection and information sharing, in the build-up to National Cancer Survivors Day on 2 June 2025.
DEVDISCOURSE | 27 May 2025
As South Africa prepares to mark Cancer Survivors Month this June, three leading organisations — the National Cancer Registry (NCR), the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA), and the non-profit Living with Cancer South Africa — have joined forces to host a deeply symbolic pre-launch event.
CANSA | 26 May 2025
This May and June, Old Mutual Property is putting the spotlight on cancer in a bold and interactive way. Through its support of Living with Cancer SA, eight major malls in five different provinces under its banner will become vibrant hubs for community-led cancer awareness, reflection and information sharing, in the build-up to National Cancer Survivors Day on 2 June 2025.
NICD | 26 May 2025
The National Cancer Registry (NCR), based at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), in partnership with Living With Cancer South Africa, a non-profit organisation, and Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA), will host the Cancer Survivors Month plans pre-launch on Tuesday, 27 May 2025.
BIZCOMMUNITY | 26 Feb 2024
As a market leader in health communications, Ogilvy Health is thrilled to support the launch of South Africa’s first patient-led cancer registry. This groundbreaking initiative signifies a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer, highlighting the critical importance of data-driven healthcare strategies. With approx. 120,000 people diagnosed with cancer annually, this innovative approach significantly enhances our understanding of the disease.
BIZCOMMUNITY | 15 Feb 2024
South Africa has begun collecting data on cancer directly from patients for the first time, to help shape national cancer policies and resourcing. A lack of extensive and detailed data has long been recognised as a barrier to improved cancer care, amid a national and Africa-wide crisis. According to the World Health Organization, there are around 1.1 million new cancer cases and 700, 000 deaths from cancer in Africa each year.
SPOTLIGHT | 12 Feb 2024
Cancer patients and other members of the public now have an opportunity to contribute to improving the quality and completeness of cancer data in South Africa. This follows the recent launch of a new patient-led cancer registry. The project is a joint initiative of Living with Cancer (LWC), an NGO, and the existing National Cancer Registry (NCR) housed in the National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD).
BUSINESS DAY | 31 Jan 2024
Patients will be able to upload details of their cancer diagnosis on the website, and the data will be shared with the national cancer registry.
CANSA | 2024
When Belinda Wagner was diagnosed with angiosarcoma, in 2016, she looked for information to help her navigate the challenges that lay ahead. “When I searched online, I found the South African National Cancer Registry (NCR). Although this was a valuable resource, angiosarcoma was not listed at the time,” she explains.
ONCOLOGY BUDDIES | 29 July 2024
We hear how Belinda Wagner, a life coach, facilitator, lecturer and marketing consultant, ensured her diagnosis of angiosarcoma would not take control of her life. “Live life, don’t do life” and that’s what I do: live.”
CANSA | 22 April 2022
When Belinda Wagner was diagnosed with angiosarcoma, in 2016, she looked for information to help her navigate the challenges that lay ahead.
DAILY MAVERICK | 8 March 2022
Cancer patients and other members of the public now have an opportunity to contribute to improving the quality and completeness of cancer data in South Africa. This follows the recent launch of a new patient-led cancer registry. The project is a joint initiative of Living with Cancer (LWC), an NGO, and the existing National Cancer Registry (NCR) housed in the National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD).
ITWEB | 5 Feb 2021
When Belinda Wagner, a facilitator, marketing consultant and life coach, was diagnosed with a rare cancer in 2016 called Angiosarcoma, she looked for information about cancer and support groups to help her navigate the immense challenges that lay ahead.
SANDTON CHRONICLE | 12 Jan 2020
Living with cancer and hope – Living with Cancer support group aims to create awareness and get the in-patient cancer registry up and running. Living with Cancer founder Belinda Wagner hopes to inspire cancer patients to speak their truth as she journeys to revive the South African in-patient cancer registry.
On TV
eNEWS | 2024
Celebrating Survivors and Inspiring the Newly Diagnosed.
Cancer is one of the greatest tests of the human spirit. In this Cancer Survivors Day broadcast, eNews interviews Belinda Wagner (founder of Living with Cancer) on her journey to creating South Africa’s first patient-led cancer registry.
SABC NEWS | 21 June 2021
When Belinda Wagner was diagnosed with angiosarcoma, in 2016, she looked for information to help her navigate the challenges that lay ahead.
On radio
SAFM 104 -107 | 2024
South Africa’s only national news and talk radio station SAfm, using the frequency 104-107 across the country, interviewed Living with Cancer’s founder Belinda Wagner on 15 February 2021, at 21h15. Songezo Mabece, who hosts The View Point show which is on air Monday to Thursday between 8pm and 10pm, interviewed Belinda to learn more about the organisation that oversees the country’s first patient-led cancer registry.
THE VOICE OF THE CAPE | 15 Feb 2021
February is National Cancer Prevention Awareness Month. Belinda Wagner is a facilitator, marketing consultant and life coach who was diagnosed with a rare cancer called Angiosarcoma and due to lack of information online, she decided to open up a patient-led registry for people living with cancer.
Belinda Wagner, Founder of Living with Cancer and Collin Govender, MD of Altron Karabina joins us online to speak to us more
THE VOICE OF THE CAPE | 15 Feb 2021
February is National Cancer Prevention Awareness Month. Belinda Wagner is a facilitator, marketing consultant and life coach who was diagnosed with a rare cancer called Angiosarcoma and due to lack of information online, she decided to open up a patient-led registry for people living with cancer.
Belinda Wagner, Founder of Living with Cancer and Collin Govender, MD of Altron Karabina joins us online to speak to us more
101.9 CHAIFM | 18 November 2021
Interview with Belinda Wagner – how Belinda ensured her diagnosis of a rare cancer angiosarcoma would not take control of her life dream to build a patient led cancer registry.
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