The Polish Cancer League Foundation was established to support the health
and lives of people affected by cancer. We want everyone to have access to effective
treatment and a dignified life—regardless of where they live or their personal
circumstances.
We unite specialists, organizations, and people of goodwill to make the fight against
cancer one of Poland’s key public health priorities. We believe that only by working
together can we effectively reduce the risk of cancer and improve treatment outcomes.
The League is a community of people from diverse backgrounds—physicians, scientists,
journalists, patients, and social activists—brought together by one goal: to make the
fight against cancer a shared cause for us all.
We believe that this struggle is not only about medicine, but also about solidarity,
cooperation, and mutual trust. Cancer is a challenge that touches every one of us—and
we want the response to it to be a collective effort by society as a whole.
Since 1976 a member of the Workers’ Defense Committee (KOR). Co-organizer of the Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ Wybrzeża). Organizer of the Gdańsk Shipyard strike in August 1980 and an underground activist in the Solidarity movement during martial law. Member of the Polish Parliament (Sejm) from 1991 to 2001. Since 2005, elected as a Senator of the Republic of Poland. Speaker of the Senate (2005–2015) and Deputy Speaker from 2015 to the present.
Social activist, First Lady of the Republic of Poland (1990–1995). Honorary President of the Gdańsk Foundation for the Development of Culture and a member of the honorary councils of numerous social organizations.
One of the most accomplished and recognizable Polish rally drivers, with multiple national and European championship titles, as well as successful participations in World Rally Championship (WRC) events and the legendary Dakar Rally. Winner of the 2013 FIA Cross-Country World Cup and third-place finisher in the 2015 Dakar Rally. In 2021, his return to racing brought him the FIA European Baja Championship and the Polish Championship. Named by Forbes magazine as one of the most influential athletes in Poland.
Lawyer and expert in civil, constitutional, and administrative law, as well as human rights; Professor of Legal Sciences. Since 1985, Professor at the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN); member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. The first Ombudsperson for Citizens’ Rights in Poland. Judge of the Supreme Administrative Court (1999–2002) and of the Constitutional Tribunal (2002–2011).
Film and theater actress, director, writer, columnist, and singer. Co-founder and President of the Krystyna Janda Foundation for Culture and Artistic Director of the Polonia and Och-Teatr theatres in Warsaw.
Theater and film actor, director, philologist, and writer. Member of the European Film Academy. Former Rector of the Ludwik Solski State Theatre School in Kraków.
Medical oncologist and academic teacher, retired Head of the Department and Clinic of Oncology and Radiotherapy at the Medical University of Gdańsk. Recipient of numerous scientific awards, including those of the Prime Minister of Poland, the Mayor of Vienna, the Sobolewski Award of the Polish Society of Oncology, the Joseph Cullen Award of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, the Heweliusz Award of the Mayor of Gdańsk, and the “Outstanding Pole” title of the Teraz Polska Foundation.
Member of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences, Academia Europaea, the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Honorary Doctor of the Medical University of Łódź. Former President of the Polish Society of Oncology.
Professor, Head of Department of Epidemiology & Cancer Prevention; Head of Polish National Cancer Registry at Maria Sklodowska - Curie National Research Institute of Oncology in Warsaw. Member of the Polish Society of Oncology and Board Member of the Polish Society for Breast Cancer Research.
Physician, Assistant Professor at the Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Medical University of Gdańsk. Specializes in the treatment of breast cancer. Her research interests include fertility preservation techniques in cancer patients and cardiological complications associated with oncological therapy.
Head of the Legal Department at AstraZeneca Pharma Poland Sp. z o.o. Active in healthcare law since 2004. Handles pro bono cases related to access to treatment, including cross-border healthcare. Regularly recognized in prestigious international rankings such as Chambers Europe and Legal 500. Author of numerous publications on healthcare law. Weidenfeld–Hoffmann Foundation Scholar at the University of Oxford (Magister Juris program, 2010–2011).
Physician, specialist in radiation oncology, clinical oncology, and palliative medicine; certified psycho-oncologist. Head of the Clinic of Palliative Medicine and Psycho-Oncology, Department of Oncology, Collegium Medicum, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. Lecturer in postgraduate studies at SWPS University. Board Member of the Polish Psycho-Oncology Society.
Pediatrician and pediatric gastroenterologist. Assistant Professor at the Department of Pediatrics, Gastroenterology, Allergology, and Pediatric Nutrition, Medical University of Gdańsk. Co-author and first coordinator of the national public health program “6-10-14 for Health.”
In 2015–2016, Deputy Director for Medical Affairs at the Pomeranian Regional Branch of the National Health Fund (NFZ). Chair of the Municipal Commission for Solving Alcohol-Related Problems in Gdańsk. Secretary of the Polish Society for Childhood Obesity. Marshall Memorial Fellow of the German Marshall Fund.
Specialist in anesthesiology (1st degree) and psychiatry (2nd degree). Co-Chair of the Expert Commission on Mental Health at the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights. Member of the National Development Council to the President of Poland. Former Minister of Health in the cabinets of Leszek Miller and Marek Belka. Member of Parliament (1st, 2nd, and 6th terms) and Senator (5th term).
Mathematician and computer scientist. Professor at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences; member of the European Academy of Sciences. Honorary President of the Family Business Initiative Association, Honorary Chair of the Adam Smith Center, Honorary Member of the Polish Information Processing Society, and member of over 20 other organizations.
Physician, National Consultant in Gynecologic Oncology. Head of the Department of Gynecologic Oncology at the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology. Board Member of the Polish Society of Gynecologic Oncology.
Physician, specialist in radiology and nuclear medicine. Head of the Department of Radiology and Imaging Diagnostics at the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology in Gliwice. Board Member of the Polish Medical Society of Radiology and Chair of its Neuroradiology Section.
Physician, specialist in pediatrics, pediatric oncology, hematology, clinical immunology, clinical transplantology, and palliative medicine. Retired Head of the Department and Clinic of Bone Marrow Transplantation, Pediatric Oncology and Hematology at the Wrocław Medical University. President of the Polish Pediatric Society. Senator of the 8th term of the Polish Parliament.
Physician, specialist in radiation oncology and clinical oncology. Head of the Department and Clinic of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Medical University of Gdańsk. Former National Consultant in Radiation Oncology.
Physician, specialist in radiation oncology. Head of the Department and Clinic of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice.
Physician, specialist in general and oncologic surgery. Retired Head of the Department and Clinic of Oncologic Surgery, Medical University of Gdańsk. Former President of the Polish Society of Surgical Oncology.
Physician, specialist in hematology, clinical oncology, and transplantology. Retired Head of the Department and Clinic of Hematology, Oncology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw. In 1984, together with his team, he performed the first successful bone marrow transplant in Poland.
Graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics (Faculty of Foreign Trade). Long-time President of the Amazonki Warsaw-Center Association. Founder and head of the Polish Amazons – Social Movement organization.
Physician, specialist in neurosurgery. Department of Head and Neck Tumors, National Research Institute of Oncology in Warsaw. Member of the College of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Rzeszów.
Vice President of the Employers of Poland Confederation, responsible for healthcare sector affairs. Vice President of the Polish Association of Private Hospitals and the AMD Association. Chair of the Healthy Health Employers’ Corporation under the Employers of Poland organization.
Physician, specialist in radiation oncology and clinical oncology. President of the Polish Union of Oncology. Head of the Conservative Treatment Department, Clinic of Lymphatic System Tumors, National Research Institute of Oncology in Warsaw.
Historian, publicist, and politician. Professor at the University of Warsaw and the Academy of Humanities in Pułtusk. Member of Parliament (2nd and 4th terms), Deputy Speaker of the Sejm (4th term), and Adviser to the President of Poland on History and National Heritage (2010–2015).
Physician, specialist in oncologic surgery. Head of the Department of Surgery, National Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases in Warsaw. Secretary-General of the Polish Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons.
Sociologist. Her work focuses on the sociological aspects of health, illness, and disability. Head of the Research Team on Living Conditions and the Social Determinants of Health at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Author of numerous publications in the field of medical sociology.
Physician, specialist in pediatrics as well as healthcare organization and public health. President and Managing Director of the “Budzik” Children’s Rehabilitation Clinic.
Physician, specialist in clinical oncology. Head of the Department of Oncology and Breast Diseases at the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education (CMKP). Head of the Clinical Department of Chemotherapy, Radom Oncology Centre.
Graduate of the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology (Computer Science). President of the Board of the Alivia Oncology Foundation.
Physician, specialist in clinical oncology and cancer chemotherapy. Head of the Department of Oncology and Director of the Oncology Institute at the Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences in Poznań. President of the Polish Lung Cancer Group.
Physician, specialist in clinical oncology. Head of the Department of Clinical Oncology and Chemotherapy at the European Health Centre in Otwock. Founder and President of the Foundation for Experimental and Clinical Oncology. Member of the Program Council of the Jolanta Kwaśniewska Foundation “Communication Without Barriers.”
Film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter, and writer. Author of internationally acclaimed films such as The Structure of Crystal (1968), Illumination (1973), Camouflage (1976), Constans (1980), A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984), Wherever You Are, If You Are (1988), At Full Gallop (1996), Persona Non Grata (2004), Revisited (2009), and Foreign Body (2014). Winner of awards at major international festivals including Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Moscow, Chicago, Montreal, Berlin, and Tokyo. Honorary Doctor of several renowned universities; academic lecturer in many countries. From 1979 to 2019, Director of TOR Film Studio. Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
Physician, GP. Head of the Department of Prevention and Medical Teaching, Medical University of Gdańsk. Consultant at the National Institute of Public Health – National Institute of Hygiene in Warsaw.
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