Joshua Omale, Pediatric Oncology Advocate, Innovation Council Member at Coalition Against Childhood Cancer (CAC2), shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Prevention is not weak in cancer control. It is weak in cancer policy.
Most cancers in low-resource settings are discovered late not always because people delay, but because systems are largely built for treatment, not prevention.
- Budgets often favor hospitals over communities.
- Guidelines exist without delivery mechanisms.
- Screening is centralized instead of embedded.
- Vaccines are available without demand creation.
- So “prevention” becomes a slogan, not an operating system.
The result?
We invest heavily at the point of disease and lightly at the point of risk. True cancer prevention is not just: vaccines, screening and education.
It is:
- financing models that reward early action.
- primary care that can recognize risk.
- trust between communities and health systems.
- data that reaches decision-makers before crises.
Until prevention is designed as infrastructure, not an add-on, cancer control will always arrive too late.”
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