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The global burden of women's cancers: a grand challenge in global health

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Ginsburg, Ophira, Bray, Freddie, Coleman, Michel P, Vanderpuye, Verna, Eniu, Alexandru, Kotha, S Rani, Sarker, Malabika, Huong, Tran Thanh +13 more·2017·The Lancet

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Every year, more than 2 million women worldwide are diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer, yet where a woman lives, her socioeconomic status, and agency largely determines whether she will develop one of these cancers and will ultimately survive. In regions with scarce resources, fragile or fragmented health systems, cancer contributes to the cycle of poverty. Proven and cost-effective interventions are available for both these common cancers, yet for so many women access to these is beyond reach. These inequities highlight the urgent need in low-income and middle-income countries for sustainable investments in the entire continuum of cancer control, from prevention to palliative care, and in the development of high-quality population-based cancer registries. In this first paper of the Series on health, equity, and women's cancers, we describe the burden of breast and cervical cancer, with an emphasis on global and regional trends in incidence, mortality, and survival, and the consequences, especially in socioeconomically disadvantaged women in different settings.

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Ginsburg, O., Bray, F., Coleman, M. P., Vanderpuye, V., Eniu, A., Kotha, S. R., Sarker, M., Huong, T. T., Allemani, C., Dvaladze, A., Gralow, J., Yeates, K., Taylor, C., Oomman, N., Krishnan, S., Sullivan, R., Kombe, D., Blas, M. M., Parham, G., Kassami, N., & Conteh, L.
Affiliations
  • University of Toronto (CA)
  • Centre international de recherche sur le cancer (FR)
  • London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
  • Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (GH)
  • Institute of Oncology Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuta (RO)
  • BRAC University (BD)
  • Hanoi Medical University (VN)
  • Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (US)
  • Queen's University (CA)
  • RTI International (US)
  • King's College London (GB)
  • Ocean Road Cancer Institute (TZ)
  • Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (PE)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • Imperial College London (GB)
Corresponding author
Ginsburg, Ophira
Venue
The Lancet
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-02
Volume
389
Issue
10071
Pages
847-860
ISSN
  • 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
  • 0140-6736
OpenAlex
W2548000951
Cited by
1,127
References
101
Citations by year
2026: 71 · 2025: 131 · 2024: 143 · 2023: 130 · 2022: 116 · 2021: 154 · 2020: 144 · 2019: 96 · 2018: 88 · 2017: 47 · 2016: 5 · 2012: 1
FWCI
7.83
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • The Lancet (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) (acceptedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (submittedVersion)
  • Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
  • BRAC University Institutional Repository (BRAC University) (submittedVersion)
  • Spiral (Imperial College London) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
  • World Health Organization
  • Cancer Research UK (11700, 16148, 18525)
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (HPRU-2012-10080)
  • Women's College Hospital
  • University of Toronto
  • Medical Research Council (MR/K010174/1)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Women's cancer prevention and management
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Cervical Cancer and HPV Research
Keywords
breast cancer, cervical cancer, women's cancer, global burden of disease, cancer incidence, cancer mortality, cancer survival, socioeconomic inequalities in health, low- and middle-income countries, cancer control, population-based cancer registry, health equity, poverty cycle
MeSH terms
Female, Humans, Income, Poverty, Social Class, Global Health, Incidence, Women's Health

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