Most common cancers in developing World-stomach, cervix, lung and liver cancer have decreased in incidence and mortality in industrialized countries, but remain as a serious public health problem in our country. Disparities in cancer are caused by the complex interplay of low economic class, culture and social injustice with poverty playing the dominant role. These areas should be delineated and targeted with an intense approach to provide education, appropriate access to screening, diagnosis, treatment and an improved social support.

El gobierno ha lanzado el Plan Nacional para la Atención Integral del Cáncer -"Plan Esperanza" -DS Nº009-2012- SA- con el fin de "subsanar la elevada subcobertura" en la práctica "de los exámenes básicos de detección de las principales neoplasias malignas del país". Este saludable proyecto es un nuevo intento de solucionar este grave y penoso problema de salud, que por su importancia, demanda la participación de todos los estamentos de nuestra sociedad.

The greatest challenge for cáncer control in the 21st century is to reduce morbidity and mortality in developing countries ,in opinion of a number of leading authorities and cáncer institutions, because cáncer control in developing countries lags behind that in affluent countries. Cáncer is often considered to primarily affect people living in wealthy nations; this is a myth that needs to be corrected: six of the eleven million cases of cáncer registered in 2,008, and two thirds of the 7.6 million of cáncer related deaths occur in developing countries, and over the next 10 years, 70 per cent of cáncer cases will occur in the developing world.The vicious circle of the inefficacy in the use of our limited resources to treat advanced cáncer patients, and not implement the relatively inexpensive measures to the prevention and early detection of cáncer, ends with institutions with le...

Most common cancers in developing World-stomach, cervix, lung and liver cancer have decreased in incidence and mortality in industrialized countries, but remain as a serious public health problem in our country. Disparities in cancer are caused by the complex interplay of low economic class, culture and social injustice with poverty playing the dominant role. These areas should be delineated and targeted with an intense approach to provide education, appropriate access to screening, diagnosis, treatment and an improved social support.

El gobierno ha lanzado el Plan Nacional para la Atención Integral del Cáncer -"Plan Esperanza" -DS Nº009-2012- SA- con el fin de "subsanar la elevada subcobertura" en la práctica "de los exámenes básicos de detección de las principales neoplasias malignas del país". Este saludable proyecto es un nuevo intento de solucionar este grave y penoso problema de salud, que por su importancia, demanda la participación de todos los estamentos de nuestra sociedad.

The greatest challenge for cáncer control in the 21st century is to reduce morbidity and mortality in developing countries ,in opinion of a number of leading authorities and cáncer institutions, because cáncer control in developing countries lags behind that in affluent countries. Cáncer is often considered to primarily affect people living in wealthy nations; this is a myth that needs to be corrected: six of the eleven million cases of cáncer registered in 2,008, and two thirds of the 7.6 million of cáncer related deaths occur in developing countries, and over the next 10 years, 70 per cent of cáncer cases will occur in the developing world.The vicious circle of the inefficacy in the use of our limited resources to treat advanced cáncer patients, and not implement the relatively inexpensive measures to the prevention and early detection of cáncer, ends with institutions with le...