The challenge of the future is for all of use to work together and have committed oncologists and medical teams pull together to accomplish a change in the fut
This years annual meeting of ASCO met in Chicago and the emphasis was on "advancing Global Health Equity." When talking about global that means universal, there is one world and we are all a part of it and we must look at the global community. There have been advances in some parts of the world but not uniformally everywhere. It is time we take borders down and unite forces to get the answers to reach all. We learned much in the past from the AIDS care and because of successful interventions we are seeing vastly decreased rates of AIDS in even low resource countries. Whether we are looking at AIDS,HIV,TB, or other illnesses, it is time we pull together and if we can do it with other diseases, let us affect a change in cancer. "Low and middle-income countries bear nearly 80 percent of the global burden of disease for cancer, yet account for just five percent of global spending on cancer." (Sarah Diguilio-ONCOLOGY TIMES)
The challenge of the future is for all of use to work together and have committed oncologists and medical teams pull together to accomplish a change in the fut
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AuthorMy name is Sue Kilburn and I am a clinical nurse breast cancer educator at the Yolanda G. Barco Oncology Institute in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Archives
March 2015
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