Cancer Control 2024
ONLINE EDITION (to download a PDF of the article click the title)
The Cancer Control Consultation
The Cancer Control Survey 2024
Global Issues
Cancer care in humanitarian emergencies
Nahla Gafer, Consultant, Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) Department, World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO), Egypt; Nuhamin Gebre, Family Physician, PhD Researcher, King’s College, London and Technical Advisor for Palliative Care, Ministry of Health, Ethiopia; Zaynab Mahdi, Fellow, Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) Department, World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO), Egypt and Megan Doherty, University of Ottawa, Canada and Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration Foundation
Cancer research capacity in low- and middle- income countries: An attempt at a comprehensive NGO perspective
Malcolm A Moore, EurAsian Education – Intermal; Elena Ten, Acting Associate Professor, International Highest School of Medicine, Kyrgyz Republic and Nurbek Igissin, Director of the Research Institute of Life and Health Sciences, Kokshetau University and Chairman, Central Asian Institute for Medical Research
The Outcome Report of the London Global Cancer Week Round Table discussion on building resilience in cancer systems in low- and middle-income countries
Mark Lodge, Commissoning Editor, Cancer Control 2024 and Chair, of the UKIGCN Steering Committee
CANCER TREATMENT
Essential standards for implementing quality radiotherapy globally
Pat Price, Consultant Oncologist, Global Coalition for Radiotherapy, United Kingdom; Darien Laird, Executive Director, Global Coalition for Radiotherapy, Switzerland; Katie Wakeham, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, United Kingdom; and Lisa Stevens, Director, Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Austria
Improving the quality of paediatric radiotherapy in Nepal: A UK and Ireland Global Cancer Network project
Aileen Flavin, Consultant Radiation Oncologist, St Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network, Dublin, Ireland; Ruth Ryan, General Manager, National Cancer Control Programme, Health Services Executive, Ireland; Martina Curran, Management Accountant, Corporate HSE, Ireland; Kirsten Hopkins, retired Clinical Oncologist; Subecha Bhusal, Senior Clinical Fellow in Clinical Oncology, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, UK and Richard Cowan, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Christie Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom and Clinical Professor in Oncology, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
REGIONAL FOCUS
The Ndjamena Cancer Registry: The establishment of the first population-based cancer registry in Chad
Fatima A A Haggar, Director, National Cancer Control Programme, Ministry of Public Health, Ndjamena, Chad
Private health insurance in cancer care: A case study from Malaysia
Michael Gone, Health Financing Manager, City Cancer Challenge, Geneva, Switizerland; Alene Yong, Research Fellow, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Derrick Zhie X Chan, City Manager (Greater Petaling), City Cancer Challenge, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Mathieu Morand, Director, Health Financing and Innovation, City Cancer Challenge Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland.
The 2024 launch of Latin American Global Cancer Week (SELAC): Two Global Cancer Weeks uniting their efforts
Eduardo Cazap, President, Latin American and Caribbean Society of Medical Oncology (SLACOM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cancer prevention and control in the USAPI: Participatory development and partnership –the voyage
Neal A Palafox, Dioreme Navasca, Lee Buenconsejo-Lum, Janos Baksa, Aileen Tareg and Youngju Jeong, University of Hawai’i; John Taitano, The Doctor’s Clinic; Martina Reichhardt, Yap State Department of Health Services; Xner Luther, Federated States of Micronesia National Department of Health and Social Affairs, and Mavis Nitta, University of Hawai’i
