Cancer survival in Africa, Asia, and Central America: a population-based study
The Lancet OncologyPublished 12 December 2009Open access
Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, Rajaraman Swaminathan, Hermann Brenner, Kexin Chen, Kee Seng Chia, Jianguo Chen
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Variations in survival correlated with early detection initiatives and level of development of health services, and emphasises the need for urgent investments in improving awareness, population-based cancer registration, early detection programmes, health-services infrastructure, and human resources.
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Association for International Cancer Research (AICR; St Andrews, UK), Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (ARC, Villejuif, France), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle, USA).
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