The Global Impact of Cancer: A Call to Action

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  • Cancer is a global health issue, with 95% of cancer deaths occurring in developing countries.
  • In the world's poorest countries, 90% of children with cancer die compared to 12% in wealthy countries.
  • A group of Harvard students is raising awareness about cancer as a global health issue and advocating for preventative measures.
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If the focus on cancer sometimes tilts toward its impact in rich, industrialized nations, statistics show that the disease is a scourge all around the world, with 95 percent of cancer deaths occurring in developing countries. Children in poor countries aren't spared. An estimated 90 percent of children with cancer die in the world's 25 poorest countries, compared with just 12 percent in a wealthy country such as Canada, according to statistics from the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries. That glaring disparity has mobilized a group of Harvard School of Public Health (HSPS) students. The students, together with the HSPH student government, the student group Students in Latino Public Health, and the Harvard Global Equity Initiative, have put together a half-day event to raise awareness and dispel myths about cancer as a global health issue. The event, scheduled for Friday at the School of Public Health's Kresge Building, marks World Cancer Day on Monday. As part of their commitment, students are also gathering signatures for the World Cancer Declaration by the Union for International Cancer Control, which contains a list of 11 cancer-related health priorities. "There is a lot of difference between what happens in low-income countries and what happens in high-income countries," said HSPH student Sebastián Rodríguez Llamazares. Rodriguez said the effort calls attention to the fact that cancer is a serious problem in poor nations and that steps to prevent or treat it—routine in richer countries—should be part of the global health agenda. Associate Professor of Medicine Felicia Knaul, who heads the Harvard Global Equity Initiative, which supports student World Cancer Day efforts, said there are few cancers whose outcomes are similar in both developed and developing countries. Pancreatic cancer is one, because it's equally deadly everywhere. "For every other cancer that can be treated, the outcomes are very different," said Knaul, a breast cancer survivor. There are several reasons for the disparity. People in poor countries seldom hear messages about lifestyle changes—don't smoke, eat a healthy diet, exercise—that have been shown to prevent cancer. Similarly, a vaccine that can prevent one cancer fatal to women, cervical cancer, is not widely distributed. As a result, 90 percent of cervical cancer cases are found in developing countries, Knaul said.

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癌病の矛先は往々工業化された豊かな国家に衝撃を与える傾向があるが、統計では癌死の95%は開発途上国に存在し、この病気が世界中のや一大厄災であることが示されている。 貧しい国の子供は、助けてもらえないのだ。「開発途上国における癌征圧の拡大に関する国境なき医師団」の統計によると、カナダなどの裕福な国のわずか12%に比べて、世界の最貧25か国で癌を患う子供のうち90%と見積もられる子供が死亡する。 そのぎらつくような相違が、「ハーバード大学公衆衛生学科」(HSPS)の学生集団を動員させることになった。学生団体は、HSPH学生自治会、「ラテンアメリカ公衆衛生」学徒団、および「ハーバード公平世界発議団」とともに、自覚を喚起し、全地球的な健康問題として癌をめぐる神話を追い払うために、世界半日イベントなるものを立ち上げた。金曜日に公衆衛生学科のK棟で予定されたそのイベントは、月曜日を「世界癌(撲滅)日」と定め、学生らは自ら関与することの一環として、「国際癌制圧連合」による「世界癌(撲滅)宣言」のための署名集めもしている。それには、癌に関連する11項の健康優先事項の一覧が含まれている。 「低所得の国で起こることと、高収入国で起こることとの間には、たくさんの違いがあるのです」と、HSPHの学生セバスチャン・ロドリゲス・リャマサレスは語った。 その気になりさえすれば、貧しい国家では癌が重大問題であり、その予防や治療への取組-より豊かな国では恒例のこととなっている-を全地球的な健康問題の議事日程の一部とすべきである、という事実に注意が向けられる、とロドリゲスは語った。 医学部准教授のフェリシア・ノールは「ハーバード公平世界発議団」の団長で、団体では学生の「世界癌(撲滅)日」の取組を支援している。彼は、先進国と開発途上国の双方において同じであるような癌はほとんどない、と語った。ただ、膵臓癌は一つである。なぜならそれは、どこにあっても等しく致命的だからである。 「治療できる他のすべての癌にとっては、結果は非常に異なってくる」と、乳癌生存者でもあるノールは語った。 その相違には、幾つか理由がある。貧しい国の人々は、癌を予防するために示される生活様式の変化に関する情報-喫煙しないように、健全な摂食をするように、運動するように-をほとんど聞かない。同様に、女性にとって致命的な癌である子宮頸癌を予防できるはずのワクチンだが、これが広く配布されてはいないのだ。結果として、子宮頸癌の場合の90%が開発途上国で見つかるのです、とノールは語った。

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