City Cancer Challenge shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Cancer is the second leading cause of death among women worldwide, yet nearly 30% of cases in women are preventable with tools we already have.
This isn’t a failure of science. It’s a failure of systems.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, C/Can CEO Isabel Mestres and MSD joined Foreign Policy to explore how to overcome these failures by unlocking the power of cities to become critical levers for change, connecting political leadership, health infrastructure, and local communities to drive better outcomes for women living with cancer.
The impact of C/Can in cities is clear. In Asunción, city-level collaboration cut pathology report turnaround times by 60%. In Kumasi, more than 30 primary-care facilities joined training programmes to accelerate specialist referrals. In Tbilisi, hospital pharmacies now reliably stock oncology medicines.
Local action works. And we’re now preparing to take this further with bold next steps that will accelerate impact for women living with cancer. Watch this space.
Read the full Foreign Policy conversation from Davos.”