TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenges to effective cancer control in China, India, and Russia
AU - Goss, Paul E.
AU - Strasser-Weippl, Kathrin
AU - Lee-Bychkovsky, Brittany L.
AU - Fan, Lei
AU - Li, Junjie
AU - Chavarri-Guerra, Yanin
AU - Liedke, Pedro E.R.
AU - Pramesh, C. S.
AU - Badovinac-Crnjevic, Tanja
AU - Sheikine, Yuri
AU - Chen, Zhu
AU - Qiao, You lin
AU - Shao, Zhiming
AU - Wu, Yi Long
AU - Fan, Daiming
AU - Chow, Louis W.C.
AU - Wang, Jun
AU - Zhang, Qiong
AU - Yu, Shiying
AU - Shen, Gordon
AU - He, Jie
AU - Purushotham, Arnie
AU - Sullivan, Richard
AU - Badwe, Rajendra
AU - Banavali, Shripad D.
AU - Nair, Reena
AU - Kumar, Lalit
AU - Parikh, Purvish
AU - Subramanian, Somasundarum
AU - Chaturvedi, Pankaj
AU - Iyer, Subramania
AU - Shastri, Surendra Srinivas
AU - Digumarti, Raghunadhrao
AU - Soto-Perez-de-Celis, Enrique
AU - Adilbay, Dauren
AU - Semiglazov, Vladimir
AU - Orlov, Sergey
AU - Kaidarova, Dilyara
AU - Tsimafeyeu, Ilya
AU - Tatishchev, Sergei
AU - Danishevskiy, Kirill D.
AU - Hurlbert, Marc
AU - Vail, Caroline
AU - St Louis, Jessica
AU - Chan, Arlene
N1 - Funding Information:
PEG, JL, MH, CV, and JS are supported by the Avon Foundation, New York, through a grant to the International Cancer Program.
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - Cancer is one of the major non-communicable diseases posing a threat to world health. Unfortunately, improvements in socioeconomic conditions are usually associated with increased cancer incidence. In this Commission, we focus on China, India, and Russia, which share rapidly rising cancer incidence and have cancer mortality rates that are nearly twice as high as in the UK or the USA, vast geographies, growing economies, ageing populations, increasingly westernised lifestyles, relatively disenfranchised subpopulations, serious contamination of the environment, and uncontrolled cancer-causing communicable infections. We describe the overall state of health and cancer control in each country and additional specific issues for consideration: 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.
AB - Cancer is one of the major non-communicable diseases posing a threat to world health. Unfortunately, improvements in socioeconomic conditions are usually associated with increased cancer incidence. In this Commission, we focus on China, India, and Russia, which share rapidly rising cancer incidence and have cancer mortality rates that are nearly twice as high as in the UK or the USA, vast geographies, growing economies, ageing populations, increasingly westernised lifestyles, relatively disenfranchised subpopulations, serious contamination of the environment, and uncontrolled cancer-causing communicable infections. We describe the overall state of health and cancer control in each country and additional specific issues for consideration: 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.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1470-2045(14)70029-4
DO - 10.1016/S1470-2045(14)70029-4
M3 - Review article
C2 - 24731404
AN - SCOPUS:84898041689
SN - 1470-2045
VL - 15
SP - 489
EP - 538
JO - The lancet oncology
JF - The lancet oncology
IS - 5
ER -