The World Health Organisation has stressed the need to urgently improve cancer services in low-and middle-income countries.
WHO made the call in a statement posted on its website on Tuesday to mark the World Cancer Day on February 4.
“This is largely because these countries have had to focus limited health resources on combating infectious diseases and improving maternal and child health, while health services are not equipped to prevent, diagnose and treat cancers.“In 2019, more than 90 per cent of high-income countries reported that comprehensive treatment services for cancer were available in the public health system compared to less than 15 per cent of low-income countries,” it said.
It noted that the report was in response to governments’ calls for more research into the scope and potential policies and programmes to improve cancer control. Dr Elisabete Weiderpass, Director of IARC, said the past 50 years had seen tremendous advances in research on cancer prevention and treatment.“High-income countries have adopted prevention, early diagnosis and screening programmes, which together with better treatment, have contributed to an estimated 20 per cent reduction in the probability of premature mortality between 2000 and 2015.“We need to see everyone benefitting equally,” Weiderpass said in the statement.
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