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]
Epidemiologists have long been warning of the rapid rise in cancer rates hitting low- and middle-income countries. But it takes a journalist to get across how those statistics are playing out in peoples lives. Jason [more]
How can journalists help raise the profile of cancer and get it on the political agenda in countries where infectious diseases get most attention, reliable data are scarce, doctors are reluctant to talk and editors [more]
It was stumbling across a poster for a meeting about cancer in the developing world that turned journalist Joanne Silberner from a sceptic into a believer, and prompted her to do her bit to change [more]
Well-documented biorepositories are essential for cancer research. Currently, major biobanks are located in the developed world, which represents the minority global population; however, countries with low-resource settings contribute more than 50% of the global cancer [more]
After decades of international declarations and pilot projects, Africa is taking control of its efforts to tackle cancer. At the helm is Serigne Gueye, professor of Urology and president of AORTIC. Download full article
So says Ian Magrath and his INCTR partners, and they have the evidence to prove it that will be crucial to the success of current efforts to stem the rise of cancer in the developing [more]
Most cancer deaths are in the developing world and the problem is set to escalate, yet cancer has never received the attention given diseases such as AIDS and malaria. Equipping less-developed health systems with the [more]
Breast examination by specially trained young women doctors is proving effective at picking up tumours in the general population in a number of developing countries. If it can be shown to affect mortality rates, this [more]
Last November 800 people working to control cancer in 82 countries across the world gathered in Dublin to share their experiences of what works and what doesn’t. This was the fourth World Conference of Cancer [more]