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Global Health Issues and Cancer
The concept of global health (GH) is relatively recent, and it encompasses diverse aspects of population and health in a world context. It covers areas such as epidemiology in a wide sense, public health, and demography. In fact, we cannot understand this concept without framing it in other conceptual elements related to measurement ( statistical data, quality of life, life expectancy, mortality, or morbidity); health conditions (geographical, human, economic, sociocultural and political circumstances, and situations where access to wealth and basic services or resources, equality, or equity are involved); intervention (planning, prevention, impact, efficacy, and efficiency); and environment (sustainability). It is a concept whose reach goes beyond any border and that intends to fight disparities and to give global protection to all human groups regardless ...
- Alternative Treatments and Therapies
- Associations by Cancer Type
- American Brain Tumor Association
- American College of Gastroenterology
- American Lung Association
- Association for the Cure of Cancer of the Prostate
- Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation
- Carcinoid Cancer Foundation
- Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation
- International Myeloma Foundation
- Kidney Cancer Association
- Lymphoma Research Foundation of America
- National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organization
- National Childhood Cancer Foundation
- National Marrow Donor Program
- Sarcoma Foundation of America
- Yul Brynner Head and Neck Cancer Foundation (Head and Neck Cancer Alliance)
- Associations: Others
- American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Hematology/Oncology
- American Association for Cancer Education
- American Association for Cancer Research
- American Brain Tumor Association
- American College of Radiation Oncology
- American Joint Committee on Cancer
- American Psychosocial Oncology Society
- American Society for Radiation Oncology
- American Society of Hematology
- American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
- Association of Community Cancer Centers
- Association of Freestanding Radiation Oncology Centers
- Association of Oncology Social Work
- Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses
- California Blood Bank Society
- Canadian Association of Medical Oncologists
- Canadian Association of Pharmacy and Oncology
- Canadian Cancer Society
- Canadian Red Cross
- Canadian Society of Surgical Oncology
- Canadian Urologic Oncology Group
- Cancer Association of South Africa
- Danish Cancer Society
- Europa Donna, the European Breast Cancer Coalition
- European Association for Cancer Research
- European Cancer Organisation
- European CanCer Prevention
- European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
- European Society of Mastology
- European Society of Surgical Oncology
- Haemophilia Society (United Kingdom)
- Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Society
- International Agency for Research on Cancer
- International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
- International Association of Cancer Registries
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- International Myeloma Foundation
- International Psycho-Oncology Society
- International Society for Cutaneous Lymphomas
- International Society for Preventive Oncology
- International Society of Experimental Hematology
- International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care
- International Society of Paediatric Oncology
- International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis
- Irish Cancer Society
- Japan Lung Cancer Society
- Japanese Cancer Association
- Japanese Gastric Cancer Association
- Japanese Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
- Lymphoma Research Foundation of America
- National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations
- National Cancer Policy Board
- National Cancer Registrars Association
- National Marrow Donor Program
- Netherlands Hemophilia Patients Society
- North American Association of Central Cancer Registries
- Oncology Nursing Society
- Organization of European Cancer Institutes
- Society of Gynecology Oncologists
- Society of Surgical Oncology
- Turkish Society of Haematology
- Union for International Cancer Control
- World Health Organization
- Business of Cancer
- Abbott Laboratories (United States)
- Allergan (United States)
- Amgen (United States)
- Astellas Pharma (Japan)
- AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)
- Bristol-Myers Squibb (United States)
- Celgene (United States)
- Cost of Therapy
- Daiichi Sankyo (Japan)
- Eisai (Japan)
- Eli Lilly & Co. (United States)
- Forest Labs (United States)
- Genentech
- Genzyme (United States)
- GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
- H. Lundbeck (Denmark)
- Johnson & Johnson (United States)
- Marketing, Drug
- Marketing, Hospitals and Clinics
- MedImmune (United States)
- Merck (Germany)
- Merck & Co. (United States)
- Novartis Group (Switzerland)
- Novo Nordisk (Denmark)
- Ono Pharmaceutical (Japan)
- Pfizer (United States)
- Roche Group (Switzerland)
- Shire UK
- Taisho Pharmaceutical (Japan)
- Takeda Pharmaceutical (Japan)
- Cancer Around the World
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Angola
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burma (Myanmar)
- Burundi
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Congo, Democratic Republic
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland, Republic of
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Cancer in Society
- Advertising
- Asbestos
- Asian Diet
- Assisted Suicide
- Automobiles
- Bicycles
- Breast Cancer, Sociocultural Differences and
- Careers
- Cell Phones
- Childcare and Cancer Risk
- Chlorine
- Clothing
- Cosmetics
- Daily Life
- Developing Countries
- Diet and Nutrition
- Disparities Within Nations (Elimination of Cancer)
- Drugs
- Education
- Electronics
- Exercise
- Family Size
- Food Additives
- Food and Drug Administration
- Future of Cancer
- Global Health Issues and Cancer
- Government
- History of Cancer
- Hospitals
- Insurance
- Lead
- Meat Processing
- Media
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Menarche, Early
- Obesity
- Paint
- Pollution, Air
- Pollution, Water
- Poverty
- Radiation
- Religion
- Religion, Jewish Women and Cancer Risk
- Religion, Meditation and Risk
- Religion, Preventability Versus Preordained
- Religion, Use of Interventions
- Sedentary Occupations
- Sex
- Smoking and Society
- Statistics
- Stress
- Sun Exposure (Australia)
- Sunscreen
- Survivors of Cancer
- Survivors of Cancer Families
- Technology, Imaging
- Technology, New Therapies
- Tobacco in History
- Town Plans
- Transportation
- Western Diet
- WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
- X-Rays
- Known or Suspected Carcinogens/Causes of Cancer
- Acrylic Rubber and Fibers
- Aerospace Industry
- Age
- Alcohol
- Antibiotics
- Anticancer Drugs
- Battery Acid
- Broad-Spectrum Ultraviolet (UV) Radiation
- Chemical Industry
- Chemotherapy
- Chloroform
- Coal Industry
- DDT
- Deodorizers
- Detergents
- Diesel Exhaust
- Disinfectants and Antiseptics
- Dyes and Pigments
- Electrical Industry
- Embalming Fluids
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke
- Estrogen, Steroidal
- Experimental Cancer Drugs
- Explosives
- Family Size
- Flame Retardant
- Flavoring Agents
- Freon
- Gasoline
- Genetics
- Glass Industry
- Hair Dye
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Herbicide
- Immigrant Populations
- Infection
- Insecticides
- Jet and Rocket Fuels
- Latitude
- Lead
- Meat, Cooking
- Natural Causes of Cancer
- Neutrons
- Nickel Compounds
- Nuclear Industry
- Obesity
- Paint
- Paper Industry
- Passive Smoking
- Perfume
- Pesticides
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Plastics Industry
- Polishes
- Radiation, Gamma
- Radiation, Ionizing
- Smokeless Tobacco
- Solar Radiation
- Solvents
- Stainless Steel
- Sunlamps or Sunbeds, Exposure to
- Textile Dyes
- Tobacco Smoking
- Tobacco-Related Exposures
- Toxic Mold
- Ultraviolet A Radiation
- Ultraviolet B Radiation
- Ultraviolet C Radiation
- Ultraviolet Radiation Related Exposures
- Vinyl
- War Gases and Chemicals
- Water Treatment
- Wood Dust
- Wood Preserver
- X-Rays
- Major Cancer Associations
- American Association for Cancer Research
- American Cancer Society
- American Society of Clinical Oncology
- Association of Cancer Online Resources
- Association of Community Cancer Centers
- Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program
- International Cancer Alliance for Research and Education
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- National Cancer Institute
- National Cancer Registrars Association
- Union for International Cancer Control
- World Health Organization
- Major Hospitals and Treatment Centers
- Albert Einstein Cancer Center
- Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
- Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
- City of Hope
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Duke Cancer Institute
- Fox Chase Cancer Center
- Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa
- Huntsman Cancer Institute
- Ireland (Ohio) Cancer Center
- Jimmy Fund (DFCI)
- Kimmel Cancer Center
- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Massey Cancer Center
- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Jacksonville
- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Scottsdale
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- MIT Center for Cancer Research
- National Cancer Institute
- Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
- OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
- Purdue University Center for Cancer Research
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute
- Salk Institute for Biological Studies
- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
- Siteman Cancer Center
- St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of California, Davis, Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of California, Los Angeles, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of California, San Francisco, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of Colorado Cancer Center
- University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center
- University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center
- University of New Mexico Cancer Research and Treatment Center
- University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
- University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- University of Virginia Cancer Center
- University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
- Vermont Cancer Center
- Wistar Institute
- Yale Cancer Center
- Prevention
- Treatments and Therapies
- Types of Cancer
- Adrenocortical Carcinoma
- Adrenocortical Carcinoma, Childhood
- AIDS-Related Cancers
- Anal Cancer
- Bile Duct Cancer, Extrahepatic
- Bladder Cancer
- Bladder Cancer, Childhood
- Bone Cancer, Osteosarcoma/Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma
- Brain Stem Glioma, Childhood
- Brain Tumor, Adult
- Brain Tumor, Cerebellar Astrocytoma, Childhood
- Brain Tumor, Cerebral Astrocytoma/Malignant Glioma, Childhood
- Brain Tumor, Medulloblastoma, Childhood
- Brain Tumor, Supratentorial Primitive Neuroectodermal, Childhood
- Brain Tumor, Visual Pathway and Hypothalamic Glioma, Childhood
- Breast Cancer
- Breast Cancer and Pregnancy
- Breast Cancer, Male
- Bronchial Adenomas/Carcinoids, Childhood
- Carcinoid Tumor, Childhood
- Carcinoid Tumor, Gastrointestinal
- Carcinoma of Unknown Primary
- Central Nervous System Lymphoma, Primary
- Cervical Cancer
- Childhood Cancers
- Colon Cancer
- Colorectal Cancer, Childhood
- Endometrial Cancer
- Ependymoma, Childhood
- Esophageal Cancer
- Esophageal Cancer, Childhood
- Ewing’s Family of Tumors
- Extracranial Germ Cell Tumor, Childhood
- Extragonadal Germ Cell Tumor
- Gallbladder Cancer
- Gestational Trophoblastic Tumor
- Head and Neck Cancer
- Hepatocellular (Liver) Cancer, Adult (Primary)
- Hepatocellular (Liver) Cancer, Childhood (Primary)
- Hypopharyngeal Cancer
- Hypothalamic and Visual Pathway Glioma, Childhood
- Intraocular Melanoma
- Islet Cell Carcinoma (Endocrine Pancreas)
- Kaposi’s Sarcoma
- Kidney (Renal Cell) Cancer
- Kidney Cancer, Childhood
- Laryngeal Cancer
- Laryngeal Cancer, Childhood
- Leukemia, Acute Lymphoblastic, Adult
- Leukemia, Acute Lymphoblastic, Childhood
- Leukemia, Acute Myeloid, Adult
- Leukemia, Acute Myeloid, Childhood
- Leukemia, Chronic Lymphocytic
- Leukemia, Chronic Myelogenous
- Leukemia, Hairy Cell
- Liver Cancer, Adult (Primary)
- Liver Cancer, Childhood (Primary)
- Lung Cancer, Non–Small Cell
- Lung Cancer, Small Cell
- Lymphoma, AIDS-Related
- Lymphoma, Burkitts
- Lymphoma, Hodgkin’s, Adult
- Lymphoma, Hodgkin’s, Childhood
- Lymphoma, Hodgkin’s, During Pregnancy
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin’s, Adult
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin’s, Childhood
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin’s, During Pregnancy
- Lymphoma, Primary Central Nervous System
- Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of Bone/Osteosarcoma
- Melanoma
- Melanoma, Intraocular (Eye)
- Merkel Cell Carcinoma
- Mesothelioma, Adult Malignant
- Mesothelioma, Childhood
- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Syndrome, Childhood
- Multiple Myeloma/Plasma Cell Neoplasm
- Mycosis Fungoides
- Myelodysplastic Syndromes
- Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Diseases
- Myeloma, Multiple
- Myeloproliferative Disorders, Chronic
- Nasopharyngeal Cancer
- Nasopharyngeal Cancer, Childhood
- Neuroblastoma
- Oral Cancer, Childhood
- Oral Cavity Cancer, Lip and
- Oropharyngeal Cancer
- Ovarian Cancer, Childhood
- Ovarian Epithelial Cancer
- Ovarian Germ Cell Tumor
- Ovarian Low Malignant Potential Tumor
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer, Childhood
- Pancreatic Cancer, Islet Cell
- Paranasal Sinus and Nasal Cavity Cancer
- Parathyroid Cancer
- Penile Cancer
- Pheochromocytoma
- Pineoblastoma and Supratentorial Primitive Neuroectodermal, Childhood
- Pituitary Tumor
- Plasma Cell Neoplasm/Multiple Myeloma
- Pleuropulmonary Blastoma
- Prostate Cancer
- Rectal Cancer
- Retinoblastoma
- Rhabdomyosarcoma, Childhood
- Sézary Syndrome
- Salivary Gland Cancer
- Salivary Gland Cancer, Childhood
- Sarcoma, Ewing’s Family of Tumors
- Sarcoma, Soft Tissue, Adult
- Sarcoma, Soft Tissue, Childhood
- Sarcoma, Uterine
- Skin Cancer, Childhood
- Skin Cancer, Melanoma
- Skin Cancer, Non-Melanoma
- Skin Carcinoma, Merkel Cell
- Small Intestine Cancer
- Squamous Neck Cancer With Occult Primary, Metastatic
- Stomach (Gastric) Cancer
- Stomach (Gastric) Cancer, Childhood
- Testicular Cancer
- Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma
- Thymoma, Childhood
- Thyroid Cancer
- Thyroid Cancer, Childhood
- Trophoblastic Tumor, Gestational
- Unknown Primary Site, Cancer of, Childhood
- Unknown Primary Site, Carcinoma of, Adult
- Unusual Cancers of Childhood
- Ureter and Renal Pelvis, Transitional Cell Cancer
- Urethral Cancer
- Uterine Cancer, Endometrial
- Uterine Sarcoma
- Vaginal Cancer
- Visual Pathway and Hypothalamic Glioma, Childhood
- Vulvar Cancer
- Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia
- Wilms’ Tumor
- Women’s Cancers
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