Viorica Cursaru is not a cancer survivor herself, but lost her husband to cancer. She lives in Bucharest, Romania and acts as President of Myeloma Euronet Romania.

She has a major in English Literature and worked as an English teacher for 15 year after University graduation. For the last 20 years, she worked for the IFRC and UNHCR where from she retired on 31 December 2009. In December 2005, her late husband whom she lived with for 42 years, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. In May 2006, Viorica joined the European patients' organization Myeloma Euronet and established a national patients 'organization which acquired legal status in September 2007. The illness of her husband, associated with the difficulties encountered for the procurement of medication and fair access to treatment of last generation helped her to have a better under-standing of the Romanian health system, its shortfalls and causes. One of Viorica's main objectives was to advocate for the harmonization of Romanian national legislative health system to the EU health system. With that in mind, she has actively promoted her opinions in meetings and conferences organized by leading Patients' Organization in Europe.  Viorica has participated in three FACE workshops, both as a speaker and as a participant. Together with ECPC staff, she has actively advocated for the signing of the Written Declaration no 80 on Cancer Research in the European Parliament. Her fruitful meetings in Brussels with the Romanian MEPs brought ECPC two new FACE Champions. last but not least, she participated in the ECPC campaign for signatures to the Open Letter to the delegates of the UN Summit on Non-Communicable diseases.