Women's cancers: shining a light on a neglected health inequity
Ce dossier présente les enjeux liés à la lutte contre les cancers du sein et du col de l'utérus dans le monde
Breast and cervical cancers receive far less funding, advocacy, and public and political attention in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) than in high-income countries (HICs). Yet women in these settings have higher burdens of these diseases, poorer access to care, present with more advanced stages of disease, and are more likely to die from their disease than women in HICs. Why the discrepancy? Reasons include a belief that breast and cervical cancers are not a priority when compared with other women’s health issues, such as reproductive and maternal health, and that they are too difficult and expensive to prevent and treat in these settings
The Lancet , commentaire, 2015