CANCER CONTROL
4 CANCER CONTROL 2021
Contents
05 Introduction
CANCER CONTROL INTERVIEW
06 Cancer Control interviews Dr Andre IIbawi, WHO's
Technical Officer for Cancer Control
André Ilbawi, MD, Technical Officer, Cancer Control;
Department of Noncommunicable Diseases Division
of Universal Health Coverage (Communicable and
Noncommunicable Diseases) and World Health Organization
GLOBAL CANCER INITIATIVES
11 The strengths of partnerships in addressing AMR for
better cancer care outcomes
Shalini Jayasekar Zurn, UICC; Sonali Johnson, UICC; Helle
Aagaard, ReAct Europe; Carina Alm, Norwegian Cancer
Society; Jon Kirknes, Norwegian Cancer Society and Anna
Zorzet, ReAct Europe
16 The SIOP Global Mapping Programme: What we are
learning and how it will benefit paediatric oncology care,
support and families across Africa
Neil Ranasinghe, SIOP Global Health, International Society
of Paediatric Oncology, London, UK; Joyce Balagadde
Kambugu, Paediatric Oncology, Uganda Cancer Institute,
Kampala, Uganda; Lorna Renner, Department of Child Health,
University of Ghana; Kathy Pritchard-Jones, University
College London (UCL) and Great Ormond Street Institute
of Child Health, London, UK; Alan Davidson, Paediatric
Haematology-Oncology Service, Red Cross War Memorial
Children's Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa; Maria El
Kababri, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology,
Children's Hospital, Rabat, Morocco; Korede Akindele, The
Dorcas Cancer Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria; Eric Bouffet,
Paediatric Neuro-Oncology Program, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Canada; Julia Challinor, School of Nursing, University
of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA;
Laila Hessissen, Paediatric Hematology and Oncology Unit
of Rabat, Mohamed V University, Rabat, Morocco; Jennifer
Geel, Division of Paediatric Haematology/Oncology, Faculty of
Health Sciences, School of Clinical Medicine, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
24 The development of global cancer networks in a time of
pandemic, decolonization and climate change
Mark Lodge, Executive Director INCTR UK, Convenor London
Global Cancer Week (LGCW) Oxford UK; Kim Diprose,
Independent consultant, UK Global Cancer Network; Richard
Cowan, Consultant in Clinical Oncology, The Christie School
of Oncology, Manchester UK; Susannah Stanway, Medical
Oncologist, London Global Cancer Week (LGCW) Steering
Committee UK; Danielle Rodin, Director, Global Cancer
Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Canada;
Rebecca Morton Doherty, Director, Policy and Global Impact,
City Cancer Challenge Switzerland and Annie Young, Emerita
Professor of Nursing, Warwick Medical School, University of
Warwick, UK
28 Updating the economics of the "War on Cancer": The false
metaphor and faulty economics of the "War against Cancer"
Smita Srinivas, India Lead and Co-Investigator, the Innovation
for Cancer Care in Africa Project (ICCA), The Open University,
Milton Keynes UK and the National Centre for Biological
Sciences-Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCBS-TIFR)
Bengaluru, India.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
34 Women's cancers: do variations in patterns of care
explain the worldwide inequalities in survival and avoidable
premature deaths? The VENUSCANCER project
Dr Claudia Allemani, Professor of Global Public Health,
Cancer Survival Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, UK
40 The importance of ancestry and diversity in cell line
collection and analysis for people of African ancestry
Simone Badal, The University of the West Indies, Mona
REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
46 Cancer control in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Ibtihal Fadhil, President, Eastern Mediterranean NCD
Alliance
49 Confronting inequitable access to health commodities for
the acceleration of cervical cancer elimination goals within
the Commonwealth
Dr Janneth Mghamba, Health Advisor, Commonwealth
Secretariat; Emily Gilmour, Health Research Officer,
Commonwealth Secretariat; Yunus Mohammed,
Executive Director, SAPAM; Victoria Rutter, Executive
Director, Commonwealth Pharmacists Association and
Layne Robinson, Head of Social Policy Development,
Commonwealth Secretariat
53 Addressing the need for palliative care in Nepal - the
building of a hospice and palliative care education centre in
Kathmandu
Max Watson, Consultant, Palliative Medicine Western
Trust, Director of Project ECHO at Hospice UK; Patricia
Newland, Executive Director, The Challenge Fund and Local
Radio Presenter on Current Affairs, UK; Rajesh Gongol, Vice
Chancellor, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Founding
President Hospice Nepal and Stuart Brown, Consultant,
Palliative Medicine, Waikato Hospital, New Zealand
INCTR UPDATES
58 Mission, organization and achievements
62 INCTR Branches
63 INCTR Governing Council and partner institutions
in developing countries
64 Partners: Past and present