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. 2022 Apr 7:2:31.
doi: 10.1038/s43856-022-00097-5. eCollection 2022.

Global disparities in access to cancer care

Isabel Dos-Santos-Silva  1 , Sudeep Gupta  2 , Jackson Orem  3 , Lawrence N Shulman  4
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Global disparities in access to cancer care

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

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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Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests.

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