Mark Lawler, Associate Director of Postgraduate Studies, Chair in Translational Cancer Genomics, and Professor of Digital Health at Queen’s University Belfast, shared a post by Queen’s University Belfast, on LinkedIn, adding:
”Big interest in this Cancer Workforce Commission here at American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Conference in Chicago.
This is a ticking timebomb – if we don’t defuse it now, we face a cancer epidemic that we simply wont be able to address. What we do now will define whether we are overwhelmed or successful in addressing the cancer challenge in 2050.”
Quoting Queen’s University Belfast‘s post:
”A new report has delivered a stark message about cancer care world-wide. Unless issues are urgently addressed, there could be a predicted shortfall of 100 million cancer care workers by 2050.
The report ‘Lancet Oncology Commission on Cancer Workforce: A Global Crisis’ was launched at the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology conference.
These findings are sobering: the predicted 35 million rise in cancer cases each year globally is in sharp contrast to the projected global shortfall of 100 million cancer care workers by 2050.
‘Make no mistake: this is a wake-up call, no matter where you are in the world. What we’ve uncovered is shocking – how can we reconcile a 15 million increase in cancer cases diagnosed with a 100 million decrease in cancer staffing? The data unfortunately do not lie. We can’t wait until 2050 to see if our projections are correct – we must act now.’ (Professor Mark Lawler, Chair in Translational Cancer Genomics and Professor of Digital Health, and Commission Co-Author).”
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