World Cancer Declaration sets out targets for combating disease
posted in Cancer |Participants in the twentieth World Cancer Congress adopted a joint declaration on establishing a number of objectives to be achieved before 2020 in the fight against the disease.
The Declaration, which closed Congress, is an appeal to governments, international governmental organizations, the donors, development agencies, industry and civil society in which they give guidelines on how fight against cancer.
In 2010 the cancer is the disease that kills more people in the world, 80 percent of them in developing countries.
More than 11 million people were diagnosed with cancer in 2007, 7.9 million people died, and 72 percent were from developing countries.
According to estimates, the number of cancer cases grows to 15.5 million in 2030 if not remedied, and the largest increase will be in developing countries.
During the day Saturday, 63 scientific experts, and some authorities, among which the former president of Ireland and former High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, discussed the objectives and how to implement them.
Robinson argued that the fight against cancer is a human right because it violates the dignity of the person.
The list sets out 11 objectives to achieve before 2020.
One is that levels of snuff and alcohol consumption and obesity rates-direct and avoidable causes of cancer-have fallen dramatically.
According to WHO estimates, in 2030, four out of five cancer deaths caused by snuff will be given in developing countries.
Another goal is universal coverage of vaccines against human papillomavirus that causes cervical cancer.
According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO) one fifth of the cases were transmitted by a virus infection, including cervical cancer.
The 82 percent of uterine cancers occur in developing countries, and there is evidence that vaccination could prevent 70 percent of cases.
Another goal is the establishment of effective systems for monitoring and early recognition and a global real statistics which show the actual extent of the disease.
Currently, only 11 percent of the world’s population is covered by a system of control and registration of cancer cases.
In addition, we seek a proper diagnosis and effective treatment, universal and effective pain control in cancer patients, since, according to the WTO director general, Margaret Chan said at the opening of Congress, six million people with cancer in the world living with extreme pain and without a palliative.
Experts claim that the use of morphine is very limited, especially in developing countries, because of its price, and even cultural or religious reasons.
Another of the key issues will prevent migration of health workers, since it is a direct cause of the spread of cancer in developing countries.
Also, in relation to health policies, the signatories to the document request that is equal to cancer development agenda and suggested to establish a Global Fund as it exists for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
When United Nations Development set targets for 2015 did not include cancer, although this disease kills more people than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined, according to the organizers.