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Cancer Control Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Board on Global Health (BGH) Report Brief • February 2007- US Institute of Medicine IOM

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“….. in most of the world’s low- and middle-income countries (LMCs), where cancer is generally low or absent on the health agenda even as it is growing as a share of these countries’ overall disease burden.

Each year, for example, six million new cases of cancer occur in LMCs—more than half of the eleven million cases occurring worldwide. And each year, four million people in LMCs die from cancer—one million more than die in these countries from AIDS.

….. this situation has not received much attention or focus from the global health community or even from most of the LMCs themselves. Instead, concern about cancer in LMCs has been limited mainly to organizations already interested in the disease.In light of this situation, the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to study the issue and provide an assessment and recommendations:

- Cancer prevention

- Cancer treatment

- Palliative Care

- Assessing and Monitoring the Cancer Burden

- Developing Cancer-control Plans