TY - JOUR
T1 - Meeting the emerging challenge of breast and cervical cancer in low- and middle-income countries
AU - Knaul, Felicia M.
AU - Bhadelia, Afsan
AU - Gralow, Julie
AU - Arreola-Ornelas, Héctor
AU - Langer, Ana
AU - Frenk, Julio
N1 - Funding Information:
Felicia Knaul is founding president of a not-for-profit foundation, “Tómatelo a pecho,” dedicated to promoting awareness of breast cancer. She lives with breast cancer. Harvard Global Equity Initiative, directed by Felicia Knaul, has or is negotiating financial support for conference and dissemination of research from Johnson & Johnson, Celgene, Endo, and AstraZeneca. The Mexican Health Foundation receives support in the form of donations from numerous pharmaceutical and other private sector corporations based in Mexico and for research led by Felicia Knaul from Sanofi-Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, and Chinoin. Julie Gralow receives research funding from Amgen, Novartis, Genentech, and Roche. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. Financial support in relation to this article was provided to the Harvard Global Equity Initiative by Susan G. Komen for the Cure (Grant#: SG11-0311-01-E ).
PY - 2012/10
Y1 - 2012/10
N2 - Cancer, particularly when it affects women and reproductive health, epitomizes the complexities and inequities of the epidemiological challenge faced by low- and middle-income countries. Women in resource-poor settings face a double cancer burden: the backlog of preventable cancer, and the emerging challenge of cancers that cannot be prevented but whose impact could be dramatically reduced through early detection and treatment. Disparities in cancer incidence, mortality, and other health and non-health outcomes are exacerbated by gender inequity and compounded by discrimination and stigma. The combination of these barriers implies a multiplicative challenge for women who face cancer, particularly when the disease is associated with reproduction. The horizons of maternal and reproductive health should extend to include the life cycle of healthy changes and illness that are embodied in longer life for women. Numerous opportunities exist to strengthen health systems through sexual and reproductive and women and health platforms and better meet the challenge of cancer.
AB - Cancer, particularly when it affects women and reproductive health, epitomizes the complexities and inequities of the epidemiological challenge faced by low- and middle-income countries. Women in resource-poor settings face a double cancer burden: the backlog of preventable cancer, and the emerging challenge of cancers that cannot be prevented but whose impact could be dramatically reduced through early detection and treatment. Disparities in cancer incidence, mortality, and other health and non-health outcomes are exacerbated by gender inequity and compounded by discrimination and stigma. The combination of these barriers implies a multiplicative challenge for women who face cancer, particularly when the disease is associated with reproduction. The horizons of maternal and reproductive health should extend to include the life cycle of healthy changes and illness that are embodied in longer life for women. Numerous opportunities exist to strengthen health systems through sexual and reproductive and women and health platforms and better meet the challenge of cancer.
KW - Breast cancer
KW - Cervical cancer
KW - Epidemiological transition
KW - Low-income countries
KW - Sexual and reproductive health
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijgo.2012.03.024
DO - 10.1016/j.ijgo.2012.03.024
M3 - Article
C2 - 22883910
AN - SCOPUS:84866035736
VL - 119
SP - S85-S88
JO - International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
JF - International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
SN - 0020-7292
IS - SUPPL.1
ER -