ICEC’s response to The Lancet, “Offline: Why has global health forgotten cancer?”

ICEC’s response to Richard Horton’s thoughtful commentary, “Offline: Why has global health forgotten cancer?” was published in The Lancet.

While prevention is critical, tackling cancer is about much more than just prevention. “The solution to the deficit of global cancer care is a systematic approach to build expertise, capacity, and capability using a sustainable model that recognizes the mutually beneficial links among cancer, the other non-communicable diseases, infectious diseases, and health-care systems, while also producing economic benefit”. Read more…