Collaboration Benefits All

摘要

Most women facing gynecologic cancer live in countries with inadequate health systems, and treatment is rarely in line with international standards. This is particularly true in cervical cancer, because most developing countries offer few opportunities for radiotherapy, leaving many women without proper treatment and the risk of avoidable mortality. The recently highlighted the need to close the global cancer divide for women, but real progress will require not only evidence-based policy making but also broad multisectoral collaboration and innovative public health approaches to cancer care and control. The gynecologic malignancy with the highest cure rate is gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN). Postmolar GTN was studied at the Mansoura University Hospital, Mansoura, Egypt, with support from the Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The outcome of this study has implications for all women with GTN, and we would therefore like to share our experiences and at the same time advocate for an increase in worldwide partnerships of researchers to improve our understanding of routine clinical problems.