Lancet Commission 2014: Cancer Control in China, India, and Russia
2014
This Commission report describes the overall state of health and cancer control in China, India, and Russia. It also considers additional specific issues for each country: for China, access to care, contamination of the environment, and cancer fatalism and traditional medicine; for India, affordability of care, provision of adequate health personnel, and sociocultural barriers to cancer control; and for Russia, monitoring of the burden of cancer, societal attitudes towards cancer prevention, effects of inequitable treatment and access to medicine, and a need for improved international engagement. Improvements in socioeconomic conditions are usually associated with increased cancer incidence. China, India, and Russia share vast geographies, growing economies, aging populations, increasingly westernized lifestyles, relatively disenfranchised subpopulations, serious contamination of the environment, and uncontrolled cancer-causing communicable infections; all three countries are seeing rapidly rising cancer incidence and have cancer mortality rates that are nearly twice as high as in the United Kingdom or the United States.
Companion resources include three videos of presentations on the challenges to effective cancer control in China, India, and Russia.
Lancet Commission 2014: Cancer Control in China, India, and Russia
Source:
Goss PE et al. Challenges to Effective Cancer Control in China, India, and Russia. The Lancet Oncology 2014; 15: 489–538. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(14)70029-4.