Global disparities in access to cancer care

Isabel dos-Santos-Silva; Sudeep Gupta; Jackson Orem; Lawrence N. Shulman

doi:10.1038/s43856-022-00097-5

Communications Medicine (Apr 2022)

Global disparities in access to cancer care

Isabel dos-Santos-Silva,
Sudeep Gupta,
Jackson Orem,
Lawrence N. Shulman

Affiliations

Isabel dos-Santos-Silva: Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Sudeep Gupta: Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Centre
Jackson Orem: Uganda Cancer Institute
Lawrence N. Shulman: Center for Global Cancer Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00097-5
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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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.

Published in Communications Medicine

ISSN: 2730-664X (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsmed/

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