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Cancer health disparities and equity Systematic differences in who gets cancer, how early it is found and who survives, driven by race, income, geography, insurance and structural racism rather than biology alone. | none | none | none | ||
Financial toxicity and financial navigation Cancer treatment can bankrupt patients even with insurance. Financial navigation programmes screen for money problems and connect patients to assistance, insurance optimisation and legal help, and trials show they reduce distress and debt. | none | supportive | |||
Global oncology and access in low- and middle-income countries Seventy percent of cancer deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, where radiotherapy machines, pathologists, essential medicines and palliative care are scarce. Global oncology works on affordable, adapted care and the systems to deliver it. | Cervical cancer, Kaposi sarcoma, Wilms tumour | none | global |