According to an article by Rifat Atun and Franco Cavalli in the Lancet (03 Feb 2018) the global fight against cancer is hampered by multiple barriers that include a lack of robust leadership, lack of [more]
High-income countries need to target cancer when allocating health care funds to emerging and low income countries, says Richard Sullivan, Professor of Cancer and Global Health at Kings College London. He proposes that those funding [more]
New drugs being approved for treatment of patients with cancer are providing an average of only 2.5 months of extra life, a leading researcher has told the World Oncology Forum (WOF). Tito Fojo, Professor of [more]
Global cancer programmes and projects must pay greater attention to national priorities and structures when they offer support to developing countries, says the doctor responsible for efforts to reduce women’s cancer in Zambia. Sharon Kapambwe [more]
Princess Dina Mired, President-elect of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) is calling on the international cancer community to change the way it supports developing countries. Princess Dina who was Director of the King [more]
“I absolutely hate the assumption that cancer is too complicated for us to act. In fact probably cancer care and control is much less complicated than running the infrastructure in Mumbai, or London or Manhattan.” [more]
Robert Yates from the Chatham House policy institute has called on the oncology community to join the global campaign for universal health coverage as the best way of ensuring that governments allocate sufficient resources to [more]
Rifat Atun, Director of Global Health Systems at Harvard, warns the cancer community they must heal fragmented delivery and financing systems to tackle cancer worldwide. He summarises a seven point strategy from the World Oncology [more]
Countries across the world need to prepare for a 60% rise in cancer incidence over the next two decades. Freddie Bray Head of Cancer Surveillance at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) told [more]
The World Oncology Forum in Lugano, Switzerland, in October set a global challenge to address the growing threat from cancer in middle and low income countries. In the first of a series of short videos, [more]