Foreword —Engaging in Multisectoral Approaches Towards Achieving UHC

I am delighted to introduce this University of Tokyo lecture series on ‘Is UHC for cancer in Asia an achievable goal?’, supported by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) Asia Regional Office (UICC-ARO). Globally, the cancer burden continues to grow where recent data released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reports that in 2020 , there were an estimated 19.3 million new cases and 10 million deaths. A further increase in the cancer burden is predicted between 2020 and 2040, of which IARC estimates that half is due to changing demographics alone. (IARC press release 292.https://www.iarc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/pr292_E.pdf.)
Source: Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research