06.07.2020
A Lancet Commission on women and cancer

The Lancet "Over the past decade, the global health community has begun to acknowledge that cancer is an increasingly important public health and economic challenge in all countries. What is not acknowledged is the disproportionate impact of cancer on the lives and livelihoods of women, and the downstream impacts this creates for societies. In 104 countries, breast cancer has the highest age-standardised incidence rate of all cancers in both sexes combined; in 23 countries, it is cervical cancer. Of the 938044 deaths from these two cancers in 2018, most were premature and preventable and occurred in a low-income or middle-income countries (LMICs), where access to high-quality cancer control and care is limited and inequitable. Of the 311365 women who died of cervical cancer in 2018, nearly nine in ten lived in LMICs." (Photo: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade/flickr, CC BY 2.0)