TY - JOUR
T1 - Cancer screening and prevention in low-resource settings
AU - Shastri, Aditi
AU - Shastri, Surendra Srinivas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited.
PY - 2014/11/24
Y1 - 2014/11/24
N2 - Less-developed-region countries (LDCs) are seeing a rapid rise in cancer incidence owing to changing lifestyles, infections, environmental carcinogens and increasing longevity. LDCs have poor resources to deal with cancers, leading to high mortality rates. Investment in nationally implementable and sustainable cancer prevention and screening strategies would be more appropriate for LDCs. This Science and Society article outlines the burden of preventable cancers in selected LDCs and discusses evidence on cost-effective and widely implementable prevention and screening strategies.
AB - Less-developed-region countries (LDCs) are seeing a rapid rise in cancer incidence owing to changing lifestyles, infections, environmental carcinogens and increasing longevity. LDCs have poor resources to deal with cancers, leading to high mortality rates. Investment in nationally implementable and sustainable cancer prevention and screening strategies would be more appropriate for LDCs. This Science and Society article outlines the burden of preventable cancers in selected LDCs and discusses evidence on cost-effective and widely implementable prevention and screening strategies.
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U2 - 10.1038/nrc3859
DO - 10.1038/nrc3859
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25355377
AN - SCOPUS:84922480522
SN - 1474-175X
VL - 14
SP - 822
EP - 829
JO - Nature Reviews Cancer
JF - Nature Reviews Cancer
IS - 12
ER -
