Prof. Anil D'Cruz in Project Syndicate: Equalizing the fight against cancer

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for stronger health systems and universal health coverage in order to prevent further avoidable deaths, UICC President Prof. Anil D'Cruz writes in Project Syndicate.

Informing someone that they have cancer is indescribably difficult. It is all the more heart-wrenching when we know that their disease possibly could have been detected and treated earlier, thus increasing their survival chances, or even prevented entirely.

Read the opinion piece "Equalizing the fight against cancer" by Prof. Anil D'Cruz, President of UICC, at Project Syndicate.

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Monday 02 August 2021

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