Cary Adams in WEF Agenda: How to improve access to cancer medicines in LMICs

In 2020, 70% of the 10 million estimated deaths due to cancer occurred in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). If left unchecked, the number of premature deaths caused by cancer is expected to rise to four million by 2040.

Many LMICs do not have the required health systems infrastructure to adequately treat and care for people with cancer because diagnostics, medicines and other services for comprehensive cancer care are simply not available.