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Cancer Strategy
ScopeThe global incidence of cancer is soaring due to rapidly aging populations in most countries. By the year 2020, there will be 20 million new cancer patients each year. 70% of them will live in countries that between them will have less than 5% of the resources for cancer control. We have seen an explosion in our understanding of the disease at a molecular level and are now poised to see some very significant advances in prevention, screening and treatment. Dramatic technological change is likely in surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy leading to increased cure rates, but at a price. The completion of the human genome project will almost certainly bring sophisticated genetic risk assessment methods requiring careful integration into existing screening programmes. Preventive strategies could considerably reduce the global disease burden at low cost. And palliative care to relieve pain and suffering should be a basic right of all cancer patients. The next 25 years will be a time of unprecedented change in the way in which we will control cancer. However, the optimal organization of cancer services is a universal problem, whatever the economic environment.This new journal will provide a forum for the growing number of papers concerned with this rapidly expanding field. It will be taken and read by a wide group of professionals: oncologists, nurses, managers, hospital administrators, financial experts, the drug and equipment industry, cancer charities, cancer lobby groups, ethicists, politicians and academics. Anticipated papers will range from the academic to the practical. Review articles will be commissioned on topical subjects such as low technology screening; cost effectiveness of new drugs; establishing genetic risk assessment clinics and central versus integrated models of cancer service provision. A punchy news and views section will collect interesting pieces of information on people, places and emerging programmes from different parts of the world. The journal will provide a forum for all those interested in developing National Cancer Programmes.
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Last Updated 21 March 2001 |
