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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(16):1354-1355; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.16.1354
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 16, 1354-1355, August 18, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

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Prioritize, Prioritize: WHO Campaigns For National Cancer Programs

Caroline McNeil

Would you pay a year's salary for a mammogram? If you earned the average salary in some developing countries, that is what it would cost.

How about a small fraction of that salary to vaccinate your children against a common cancer?

When put this way by Karol Sikora, M.D., former chief of the World Health Organization's cancer program, the message is crystal clear: a country's cancer control strategies must be tailored to economic and epidemiologic realities. Countries must set priorities "rather than just trying to copy what [was] in the Journal of Clinical Oncology last month."



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