Bar Levy, Founder and CEO of HaBait Shel Bar – Israel’s Women’s Cancer Association, shared a post on LinkedIn about a paper she co-authored with colleagues published in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women’s Health:
“Endometrial cancer incidents are rising. Global health policy hasn’t caught up.
I’m proud to share our latest publication in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Women’s Health:
‘Increasing incidence of endometrial cancer demands global action‘
Despite being the most common gynecological cancer in high-income countries, endometrial cancer remains largely absent from global strategies — including the 2025 UN High-Level Meeting Political Declaration on non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Our message is clear: this must change — and it must change now.
- Incidence is increasing worldwide
- Startegies to reduce burden of disease exist — but are underutilized
- Disparities in diagnosis, access, and awareness persist
- We have no WHO roadmap, no global strategy, no one sets the urgency
Our commentary calls for:
- Integration of endometrial cancer into global NCD frameworks
- Public education and provider awareness on early symptoms
- Improved access to diagnostics and molecular risk classification
- Policy-level investment in prevention, detection, and equity
This isn’t just a clinical issue.
It’s a global women’s health issue — and a policy blind spot we can no longer ignore.
A heartfelt thank you to my brilliant co-authors for your insight and partnership: Nitsan Schwarz, Prof. Zvi Vaknin, Dr. Yakir Segev, Dr. Ora Rosengarten, Dr. Ruth Perets, Prof. Tally Levy, Prof. Tamar Safra, Dr. Zohar Magen, D.V.M. Special thank you to Prof. Christina Fotopoulou for her guidence, mentoring and leadership in general and especially in this commentary.
Let this be a turning point — toward visibility, urgency, and global accountability for a disease that is highly curable when caught early.“
Title: Increasing incidence of endometrial cancer demands global action
Authors: Bar Levy, Nitsan Schwarz, Zvi Vaknin, Yakir Segev, Ora Rosengarten, Ruth Perets, Tally Levy, Tamar Safra, Zohar Magen, Christina Fotopoulou.
You can read the full article in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women’s Health.
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