Global warning

摘要

In the villages outside Bangalore in southern India "there's a lot of fear around cancer", says social epidemiologist Suneeta Krishnan. "Women know other women who have breast cancer, or died of cervical cancer. They have little awareness that early detection can lead to good outcomes - and a feeling that theyd rather just not know, because they couldn't afford treatment." The concerns noted Krishnan, who works with RTI International's Women's Global Health Imperative in San Francisco, California, are common in the developing world, where prevalence of cancer is climbing rapidly. Experts are raising the alarm over an incoming tidal wave of diagnoses in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) that will be met with health-care resources that are starkly limited at best.