• Charities and governments have made a tremendous push in recent years to address what’s termed “global health,” yet cancer has barely rated a mention. Participate in a conversation about cancer in the developing world with a panel of doctors and health experts from around the world.

    Although this event is over, you can still continue the existing discussions. Read the dialogue between our participants and our panel of experts, including:
    -Dr. Eric Krakauer, palliative medicine, Harvard Medical School
    -Dr. ...
    Lucrecia Peinado, director of Cervical Cancer Initiative at UICC
    -Amy Banham, oncology program coordinator, Partners in Health
    -Joanne Silberner, journalist "Cancer's New Battleground" at theworld.org/cancer, a co-production of PRI'sThe World and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
    -Dr. Corey Casper, director, Uganda Cancer Institute/Fred Hutchinson Center Cancer Alliance
    -Dr. Jackson Orem, Director, Uganda Cancer Institute

    For more about "Cancer's New Battleground," visit http://www.theworld.org/cancer

    This event was hosted by PRI's The World, Partners in Health and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Event photo by Jacqueline Koch)
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  • Angilee Shah
    Katherine Bliss has a good post at the George W. Bush Presidential Center that goes over some of the discussions in this chat: She writes:

    "One issue which generated considerable comment was the extent to which the global health establishment’s traditional focus on communicable diseases, such as HIV/AIDS or malaria, obscures or competes with newer efforts to address health challenges associated with non-communicable diseases, such as cancers. Some in the conversation observed that the global community’s historic focus on communicable diseases has created stand-alone or “vertical” programs, which can be difficult to integrate with newer activities because of seemingly inflexible institutional structures or funding streams. In such a context, participants commented, people with 'just cancer' are out of luck.

    But others emphasized that even activities initially focused on single diseases have the potential to strengthen entire health systems."

    Read on: http://www.bushcenter.com/blog/2012/12/07/conversations-about-global-cancer-challenges/
    · December 7 at 1:15pm
  • Anthony Samu and 2 other people are going.
    · December 6 at 4:58pm
  • Nathan Cherny
    Hi all I am Nathan Cherny..I run the cancer pain and Palliative medicine service in Shaare Zedek Medical center in Jersalem, Israel where I care for Palestinian and Israeli patients mainly with advanced cancer. Over the past 3 years I have led a projects to evaluate the avialability and accessibility of opioids for the management of strong cancer pain in 126 countries and states of the developing world..as weel as the regulory barriers that are making access so difficult
    · December 5 at 9:47am