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Jul 24, 2025, 11:59
Progress in Fighting Cancer is Real, But Not Everywhere – UICC
Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) shared on LinkedIn:
“Progress in fighting cancer is real, but not everywhere.
According to a recent article in The Economist, we are seeing remarkable strides in reducing the global burden of cancer in high-income settings:
- Age-adjusted cancer death rates have fallen by a third in the US since the 1990s, with similar trends in other wealthy nations.
- Cheaper drugs, precision screening, and new immunotherapies (including vaccines) are changing the game.
- In the UK, cervical cancer rates in women in their 20s have dropped by 90% thanks to HPV vaccination.
- In the US, reduced smoking has likely prevented 3 million+ deaths since 1975.
- But there’s a critical gap – most of these breakthroughs remain concentrated in high-resource countries.
In low- and middle-income countries, far too many people are still dying from cancers that are preventable or treatable – simply because access to prevention, screening, and early detection services, as well as lifesaving therapies is still out of reach.
Let’s celebrate the gains – but also intensify our efforts on making cancer care equitable worldwide.
Read more from The Economist.”
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