Karen Canfell, Chair of Cancer Screening and Immunisation Committee at Cancer Council Australia and Professor of Public Health at the University of Sydney, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“How can we build on the cervical cancer example to progress towards the elimination of other cancers? Paul Grogan and myself from The Cancer Elimination Collaboration (CEC), Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, reflect on this opportunity in our recent piece for Open Access Government.
‘Increasingly diversified approaches to cancer control, from primary prevention through screening and early detection, to improved targeting of therapies to disease subtypes, can work together to fast-track major reductions in incidence and mortality. This is where cancer ‘control’ starts to look more like ‘elimination’.”
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