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Fighting Cancer around the World: A Framework for Action

by
Denis Horgan
1,2,*,
Rizwana Mia
3,
Tosan Erhabor
4,
Yosr Hamdi
5,6,
Collet Dandara
7,
Jonathan A. Lal
2,8,
Joel Fokom Domgue
9,10,
Oladimeji Ewumi
11,
Teresia Nyawira
12,
Salomé Meyer
13,
Dominique Kondji
14,
Ngiambudulu M. Francisco
15,
Sadakatsu Ikeda
16,
Chai Chuah
17,
Roselle De Guzman
18,
Anupriya Paul
19,
Krishna Reddy Nallamalla
20,
Woong-Yang Park
21,
Vijay Tripathi
2,
Ravikant Tripathi
22,
Amber Johns
23,
Mohan P. Singh
24,
Maude E. Phipps
25,
France Dube
26,
Kate Whittaker
27,
Deborah Mukherji
28,29,
Hadi Mohamad Abu Rasheed
30,
Marta Kozaric
1,
Joseph A. Pinto
31,
Stephen Doral Stefani
32,
Federico Augustovski
33,
Maria Eugenia Aponte Rueda
34,
Ricardo Fujita Alarcon
35 and
Hugo A. Barrera-Saldana
36,37
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1
European Alliance for Personalised Medicine, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
2
Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering, Jacob Institute of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj 211007, India
3
Grants, Innovation & Product Development, South African Medical Research Council, Francie Van Zijl Drive, Parow Valley, Cape Town 7505, South Africa
4
Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN), Durumi, Abuja 900110, Nigeria
5
Laboratory of Biomedical Genomics and Oncogenetics, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis 1002, Tunisia
6
Laboratory of Human and Experimental Pathology, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis 1002, Tunisia
7
Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pathology, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM), University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town 7925, South Africa
8
Institute for Public Health Genomics, Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, GROW School of Oncology and Developmental Biology, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, 6211 LK Maastricht, The Netherlands
9
Departments of Epidemiology, and Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston, TX 77030, USA
10
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaounde, Yaounde VF7W+4M9, Cameroon
11
Freelance Health Care, Life Sciences, Medical Artificial Intelligence Content Writer, Lagos 100253, Nigeria
12
National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation in Kenya (NACOSTI), Nairobi 00100, Kenya
13
Cancer Alliance, Cape Town 7700, South Africa
14
Health & Development Communication, Building Capacities for Better Health in Africa, Yaounde P.O. Box 2032, Cameroon
15
Grupo de Investigação Microbiana e Imunológica, Instituto Nacional de Investigação em Saúde (National Institute for Health Research), Luanda 3635, Angola
16
Department of Precision Cancer Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8510, Japan
17
Singularity University, P.O. Box 165, Gold Coast, QLD 4227, Australia
18
Oncology and Pain Management Section, Manila Central University–Filemon D. Tanchoco Medical Foundation Hospital, Caloocan 1400, Philippines
19
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj 211007, India
20
ACCESS Health India, Hyderabad 500086, India
21
Samsung Genome Institute, Samsung Medical Centre, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 06351, Korea
22
Ministry of Labor, Health Department Government of India, New Delhi 110001, India
23
Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Cancer Division, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
24
Centre of Biotechnology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad 211002, India
25
Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Subang Jaya 47500, Selangor, Malaysia
26
Astra Zeneca, 1800 Concord Pike, Wilmington, DE 19803, USA
27
Cancer Council Australia, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
28
Global Health Institute, American University of Beirut, Beirut VFXP+7QF, Lebanon
29
Department of Hematology/Oncology, American University of Beirut Medical Centre, Beirut P.O. Box 11-0236, Lebanon
30
Qatar Cancer Society, Doha 22944, Qatar
31
Centre for Basic and Translational Research, Auna Ideas, Lima 15036, Peru
32
UNIMED RS, Porto Alegre 90040-180, Brazil
33
Health Technology Assessment and Health Economics, Department of the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS-CONICET), Buenos Aires C1056ABH, Argentina
34
Venezuelan Breast Cancer Research and Education Foundation, Caracas 1060, Venezuela
35
Centro de Genética y Biología Molecular, Universidad de San Martín de Porres, Lima 15024, Peru
36
Innbiogem SC/Vitagenesis SA at National Laboratory for Services of Research, Development, and Innovation for the Pharma and Biotech Industries (LANSEIDI) of CONACyT Vitaxentrum Group, Monterrey 64630, Mexico
37
Schools of Medicine and Biology, Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Monterrey 66451, Mexico
*
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Healthcare 2022, 10(11), 2125; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112125
Submission received: 29 July 2022 / Revised: 11 October 2022 / Accepted: 21 October 2022 / Published: 25 October 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Redefining the Unmet Needs in Healthcare and the Regulatory Challenge)

Abstract

Tackling cancer is a major challenge right on the global level. Europe is only the tip of an iceberg of cancer around the world. Prosperous developed countries share the same problems besetting Europe–and the countries and regions with fewer resources and less propitious conditions are in many cases struggling often heroically against a growing tide of disease. This paper offers a view on these geographically wider, but essentially similar, challenges, and on the prospects for and barriers to better results in this ceaseless battle. A series of panels have been organized by the European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) to identify different aspects of cancer care around the globe. There is significant diversity in key issues such as NGS, RWE, molecular diagnostics, and reimbursement in different regions. In all, it leads to disparities in access and diagnostics, patients’ engagement, and efforts for a better understanding of cancer.
Keywords: cancer; global; diagnostics; personalized medicine; reimbursement; patients; health care; policy framework; next-generation sequencing; liquid biopsy; genomics cancer; global; diagnostics; personalized medicine; reimbursement; patients; health care; policy framework; next-generation sequencing; liquid biopsy; genomics

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Horgan, D.; Mia, R.; Erhabor, T.; Hamdi, Y.; Dandara, C.; Lal, J.A.; Domgue, J.F.; Ewumi, O.; Nyawira, T.; Meyer, S.; et al. Fighting Cancer around the World: A Framework for Action. Healthcare 2022, 10, 2125. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112125

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Horgan D, Mia R, Erhabor T, Hamdi Y, Dandara C, Lal JA, Domgue JF, Ewumi O, Nyawira T, Meyer S, et al. Fighting Cancer around the World: A Framework for Action. Healthcare. 2022; 10(11):2125. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112125

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Horgan, Denis, Rizwana Mia, Tosan Erhabor, Yosr Hamdi, Collet Dandara, Jonathan A. Lal, Joel Fokom Domgue, Oladimeji Ewumi, Teresia Nyawira, Salomé Meyer, and et al. 2022. "Fighting Cancer around the World: A Framework for Action" Healthcare 10, no. 11: 2125. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112125

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Horgan, D., Mia, R., Erhabor, T., Hamdi, Y., Dandara, C., Lal, J. A., Domgue, J. F., Ewumi, O., Nyawira, T., Meyer, S., Kondji, D., Francisco, N. M., Ikeda, S., Chuah, C., De Guzman, R., Paul, A., Reddy Nallamalla, K., Park, W.-Y., Tripathi, V., ... Barrera-Saldana, H. A. (2022). Fighting Cancer around the World: A Framework for Action. Healthcare, 10(11), 2125. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112125

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