I started at a cancer charity in St Petersburg with no budget and a team you could count on one hand. What I built there ended up in an oncology journal, at ASCO, in the national business press, in Wikipedia and on an awards stage. None of it is written by me. That is the point of this page.
the Higher School of Oncology, measured by researchers
I am not an author on these papers. I came up with the programme in 2015 and ran its first intakes. Other people later studied it and published the results.
Baron E, Sittig M, Kotov M, Fomintsev I, Gushchin V. JCO Global Oncology, 2021;7:353-360. DOI · PubMed
How it started →A conference abstract rather than a full paper. What matters is the date: a programme that started as a $3,000 competition is still running and still being written up for ASCO ten years later.
Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2025;43(16_suppl):e21028. DOI
Read the case →launches covered while they were happening
National business press on the helpline a cancer foundation launched in the first weeks of the pandemic. I am quoted as head of the help service.
Read the case →Launch coverage with me quoted as head of the project: the first 300 donation-funded consultations went within a couple of days, then demand settled at around 30 questions a day.
Read the case →judged by the industry
Awarded to Prosto Sprosit, the free written cancer consultation service, in its first year. The service paid for itself from donations from the first month.
written up by people who had never heard of me
Two products I built are described in the article, each with its own sources: SCREEN, an online cancer risk test (2016, version 2.0 in 2018), and the Higher School of Oncology (2015). I am not named in it, and I did not edit it.
by nomination: you cannot apply to IVLP, the U.S. Embassy picks participants
Nominated by the U.S. Embassy and selected for a fully funded State Department exchange for nonprofit leaders from Russia. Meetings with American nonprofits and foundations, including cancer support organisations, in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Houston and New York.
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