Force) and Andreas Ullrich (WHO Medical Officer Cancer Control
and Liaison IARC) for their comments and advice, and to
Meggan Harris (Editorial Research Assistant, University of
Valencia) for her support in bringing this paper to successful and
timely submission. l
Jose M Martin-Moreno, MD, PhD, DrPH received his medical and
public health education and training from the University of
Granada (Spain) and Harvard University (USA). His main
speciality is preventive medicine and public health, with
particular emphasis on health policy and cancer control. In
addition to his professorship at the University of Valencia, he is
the Coordinator of the Quality Unit at the Valencian Clinical
Hospital and advises the WHO Regional Office for Europe, where
he previously served as Director of Programme Management. A
founding member of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences,
he is an active member of ESMO and the ESMO Public Policy
Committee, and has also advised the European Institute of
Oncology and the International Agency for Research on Cancer
(IARC), as well as having published more than 300 scientific
papers both nationally and internationally.
Eduardo Cazap, MD, PhD, FASCO is the founder and first
President of the Latin American and Caribbean Society of Medical
Oncology (SLACOM), Immediate Past President of the Union for
International Cancer Control (UICC-Geneva) and member of the
Executive Committee of the National Cancer Institute of
Argentina. He has published over 180 papers and his main areas
of interest are global health, cancer control and prevention, breast
and cervical cancer and independent clinical research. He is
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Breast Health Global
Initiative (BHGI), Seattle, USA and President of the UICC World
Cancer Congress in Montreal, Canada, in 2012. Dr Cazap was
also Co-chair, Civil Society Task Force at the 2011 United Nations
High-Level Meeting on Non-communicable Diseases, Chairman of
the International Clinical Trials Working Group (ICTWG)-
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and Chairman of
the Scientific Council of the International School of Senology (SIS),
Strasbourg, France. Dr Cazap is currently Deputy Chair of the
ESMO Emerging Countries Committee.
David J Kerr, CBE, FRCP, FMedSci has made sustained and
internationally recognized contributions to cancer care and
research and has published over 400 papers in high profile
journals, authored over 20 books including the Oxford Textbook
of Oncology, and has been awarded four prestigious,
international research prizes. He has been elected Fellow of
Academy of Medical Sciences, President of ESMO and Founding
Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences. He
organized the African Cancer Reform convention in London
(www.afrox.org) calling for immediate action to develop cancer
control plans in Africa. In addition to his professorship at Oxford
University, he has supported British prime ministers (Tony Blair
and David Cameron) as health adviser, and has served on Qatar's
Supreme Health Council.
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