The Expanding Role of Cancer Control & the U.S. National Cancer Institute: Policy Implications for Global Cancer Care

Publication date: Available online 19 March 2019Source: Journal of Cancer PolicyAuthor(s): Arnold D. Kaluzny, Donna M. O’BrienAbstractThroughout the global community, cancer control has been recognized as an important component of cancer care for populations, patients and their families. The United States had a pioneering effort, created as a result of the 1971 National Cancer Act (The War on Cancer), when it mandated that the National Cancer Institute (NCI), in collaboration with other federal, state, and local public health agencies and private industry, conduct cancer control activities that included detection, prevention and treatment of cancer. The paper identifies three signal events in the expanding role of cancer control and their policy implications to improve clinical practice patterns in a community setting: the emergence of cancer control as science; the recognition of the interdependency of cancer control and cancer prevention; and the inclusion of cancer care delivery research and its contribution to the expanding role of cancer control. These events provide insight and guidance to others as they work to implement the 2017 World Health Assembly recommendations to improve the evidence base of cancer prevention and control on a global scale.
Source: Journal of Cancer Policy - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research