Subregional efforts to improve childhood cancer care in the Andean countries

This report describes the work of the ministries of health and the Secretariat of the Andean Health Organization (Organismo Andino de Salud - Convenio Hipólito Unánue (ORAS-CONHU)), to develop the Andean Cancer Prevention and Control Policy, with consideration given to childhood cancers. The policy was based on analysis of the cancer situation in the six Andean countries - Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) - between 2015 and 2020, and it was approved in 2022. An in-depth study is currently being carried out on the situation of childhood cancer in the Andean countries.PMID:37854495 | PMC:PMC10580197 | DOI:10.26633/RPSP.2023.151
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Source Type: research