Global disparities in access to cancer care

doi:10.1038/s43856-022-00097-5

. 2022 Apr 7:2:31.

doi: 10.1038/s43856-022-00097-5. eCollection 2022.

Global disparities in access to cancer care

Isabel Dos-Santos-Silva¹, Sudeep Gupta², Jackson Orem³, Lawrence N Shulman⁴

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¹ Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
² Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India.
³ Uganda Cancer Institute, Kampala, Uganda.
⁴ Center for Global Cancer Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA.

PMID: 35603309
PMCID: PMC9053243
DOI: 10.1038/s43856-022-00097-5

Global disparities in access to cancer care

Isabel Dos-Santos-Silva et al. Commun Med (Lond). 2022.

. 2022 Apr 7:2:31.

doi: 10.1038/s43856-022-00097-5. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Isabel Dos-Santos-Silva¹, Sudeep Gupta², Jackson Orem³, Lawrence N Shulman⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
² Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India.
³ Uganda Cancer Institute, Kampala, Uganda.
⁴ Center for Global Cancer Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA.

PMID: 35603309
PMCID: PMC9053243
DOI: 10.1038/s43856-022-00097-5

Abstract

Despite the significant advances made in our understanding of cancer and how to treat it over the last hundred years, there are wide global disparities in access to cancer care and in who gets to benefit from cutting-edge cancer research.

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Partnering to Strengthen Health Systems and Improve Access to Quality Cancer Care.
Israel A. Israel A. JCO Glob Oncol. 2022 Oct;8:e2200148. doi: 10.1200/GO.22.00148. JCO Glob Oncol. 2022. PMID: 36252160 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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[10] World Health Organisation (WHO). Selection of essential medicines at country level: WHO model list of essential medicines to update a national essential medicines list (WHO, 2020).

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