Joshua Omale, Pediatric Oncology Advocate, Innovation Council Member at Coalition Against Childhood Cancer (CAC2), shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Cancer control doesn’t fail because communities don’t care. Most times it does because systems often don’t listen. In many low-resource settings, people know something is wrong, long before a diagnosis is made.
But:
- Symptoms are dismissed.
- Primary care is overstretched.
- Referral pathways are unclear.
- And trust has been eroded by past neglect.
So care begins only when disease becomes undeniable.
This is not a failure of awareness.
It is a failure of responsiveness.
Effective cancer systems are not only those with advanced treatment, but those that recognize risk early, listen seriously, and act before crisis. Until health systems are designed to hear communities, not just treat them, early detection will remain the exception, not the norm.
Cancer is not only a biology problem.
It is equally a listening problem.”
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