Interview with the surgeon Marcos Fernando de Oliveira Moraes, chairman of Rio de Janeiro's Cancer Foundation, a private organization that provides support for cancer research and control initiatives, in partnership with the National Cancer Institute (Instituto Nacional do Câncer, or Inca), of which Moraes was director general. Dr. Moraes narrates his activities as a physician and administrator, addresses the importance of prevention and early diagnosis, and presents data on changing habits, like smoking in public. He highlights the recent creation of the city's first hospice, "a place where people go to spend the remainder of their lives as well as they can." He stresses the importance of volunteer programs, which are essential to providing more humanized treatment.