Global survival patterns: potential for cancer control
Menée à partir des données de 279 registres des cancers de 67 pays portant sur près de 25,7 millions adultes (âge : 15 à 99 ans) et sur 75 000 enfants (âge : 0 à 14 ans) atteints d'un cancer diagnostiqué entre 1995 et 2009, cette étude compare, en fonction des différents types de cancer, les taux de survie à 5 ans dans le monde
In 2011, member states of the UN General Assembly established an objective to reduce premature deaths from non-communicable diseases (including cancer) by 25% by 2025. A reduction in cancer mortality can only be achieved through disease control programmes that include prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment of malignant disease. Nearly a decade ago, the World Health Assembly called on its member states to create “national cancer plans and programs”. The need for such initiatives has escalated in the intervening years. The burden of cancer is growing worldwide, not only because the population is ageing in many countries (attributable in part to improved control of communicable diseases) but also because of changes in risk factors (eg, increasing prevalence of tobacco smoking and obesity). To establish priorities for cancer control programmes, governments must have sufficient information to record the burden of cancer in their countries. Comprehensive, high-quality cancer registration is a key component needed to assess the effectiveness of disease control programmes, and cancer registries have been endorsed by WHO...