New Cancer Guidance from WHO
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Who has new guidelines ahead of World Cancer Day (4 February)
- aims to improve the chances of survival
for people living with cancer by ensuring that health services can focus on
diagnosing and treating the disease earlier
- New WHO figures
indicate that each year 8.8 million people die from cance
- Most are in low- and
middle-income countries
-. One problem is that many cancer cases are diagnosed
too late, at an advanced stage, when they are harder to treat
successfully.
"Diagnosing cancer in late
stages, and the inability to provide treatment, condemns many people to
unnecessary suffering and early death," says Dr Etienne Krug, Director of
WHO’s Department for the Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability,
Violence and Injury Prevention.
The three steps to early diagnosis
- Improve public awareness of different cancer symptoms and encourage people to seek care when these arise.
- Invest in strengthening and equipping health services and training health workers so they can conduct accurate and timely diagnostics.
- Ensure people living with cancer can access safe and effective treatment, including pain relief, without incurring prohibitive personal or financial hardship.
Challenges
-Greater in
low- and middle-income countries, which have lower abilities to provide access
to effective diagnostic services, including imaging, laboratory tests, and
pathology – all key to helping detect cancers and plan treatment.
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-Countries
also currently have different capacities to refer cancer patients to the
appropriate level of care.
-Most people diagnosed with cancer
live in low- and middle-income countries, where two thirds of cancer deaths
occur
- Less than 30% of low-income countries have generally accessible
diagnosis and treatment services, and referral systems for suspected cancer are
often unavailable resulting in delayed and fragmented care.
- The situation for
pathology services was even more challenging: in 2015, approximately 35% of
low-income countries reported that pathology services were generally available
in the public sector, compared to more than 95% of high-income countries.
Overcoming challenges
-WHO encourages these countries to
prioritize basic, high-impact and low-cost cancer diagnosis and treatment
services.
- reducing the need for people to pay for
care out of their own pockets, which prevents many from seeking help in the
first place.
-Comprehensive cancer control
consists of prevention, early diagnosis and screening, treatment, palliative
care, and survivorship care. All should be part of strong national cancer
control plans.
-WHO has produced comprehensive cancer control guidance to help
governments develop and implement such plans to protect people from the onset
of cancer and to treat those needing care.
Cancer is now responsible for almost 1 in 6 deaths globally. More than 14 million people develop cancer every year, and this figure is projected to rise to over 21 million by 2030. Progress on strengthening early cancer diagnosis and providing basic treatment for all can help countries meet national targets tied to the SDGs.
The new cancer Guide can be accessed from WHO page
Guide to cancer early diagnosis by WHO
or try this link from the WHO website..
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References
1.Early cancer diagnosis saves lives, cuts treatment
costs
2.Guide to cancer early diagnosis
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