On December 23rd 2025 a new Psychology in Cancer’s website has been published. Changes are prominent, and I wanted to write this post to explain them. I have changed the theme as well as the way contents are sorted. And I have began to translate posts and pages to English. Take a look at it and tell me what you think!
A new Psychology in Cancer’s website
New theme
This website is built with WordPress, a platform that allows creating websites and customize them to the fullest. Each website is built upon a theme. A theme is a base that defines what kind of content this website has and the way these contents are displayed. For example, an online newspaper can choose a theme that allows, on each page, to highlight a headline, a photo and a text and, besides this, to make a “Breaking News” section.
For the new Psychology in Cancer’s website I chose a lighter theme than the one I had before. This should allow you to see the page faster, with all its elements. Isn’t it true that when you look at a website which is not completely open after 10 seconds you just want to close it?
Well, I wanted it to work as fast as possible. Specially on smartphones, which already stand for 80% of devices that access Psychology in Cancer’s website.
Updated information
Some of this website’s posts were written on 2016. Back then, this web was starting up. I used to have few patients and a lot of time to write and build a collection that has 186 posts and information pages today. But science in oncology and psychooncology fields progresses fast, and contents must be updated. I am doing this post by post.
On the other hand, I am adapting the redaction so you can find me more easily on search engines (like Google). Until summer of 2025, when you were searching on Google, you were given a page with a websites’ list, so you could click on the link you wanted. It has changed now: Google gives you a summarized text made by its own “artificial intelligence”, so clickable websites are less visible. In order to keep on competing for the information space, this adaptation was needed. This is a slow process, that I am doing step by step.
Contents, by topics
This might be the most outstanding change. On the previous version of Psychology in Cancer’s website, contents were ordered following WordPress’ taxonomy: sorting posts from pages. More or less we can say that a post has a more dynamic information and one of its keys is the date it was written -like a personal diary-. As a page has more fixed and unchanging information.
This made contents to be scattered and for example, a person searching for information about breast cancer, was supposed to search posts on breast cancer and pages on breast cancer separatedly.
The new Psychology in Cancer’s website sorts its information by topics: everything related to breast cancer is grouped in this page. And the same with information about colon cancer or other kinds of oncological diseases. This order is supposed to be more helpful for you when searching.
Contents translated to English
Until now all Psychology in Cancer’s contents were written in Catalan and Spanish. Now I have begun the translation to English, in order to reach more people, considering the high amount of visitors coming from English-speaking countries at this website.
This is also a progressive process: Translation is manual, and I do it myself, word by word. I don’t want to use automatic translators because these tools are made for general texts. But in Psychology, shades are important and I want to ensure that the texts really say what I want them to say.
You will identify contents already translated to English with the English flag you will find at the top and at the bottom of each translated page, close to the rest of flags.
What do you think about the new Psychology in Cancer’s website?
After 3 months of work, that I juggled with appointments with patients in Manresa, in Barcelona, at their homes and online, I hope these changes help you to find what you are looking for about Psycho-oncology.
I’d like to specially thank my friend and amazing professional, Eva Fernández, for her advice on all this process.
I will appreciate you to tell me your opinion about all these changes: what you like, what you don’t like, what you miss, etc. Write a comment and I will answer you!
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