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US NCI’s Gravitt On Stepping Up Cancer Control Efforts In Asia-Pacific

 
• By Anju Ghangurde

Dr Patti Gravitt, Deputy Director, Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute, in an interview with Scrip, discusses a range of strategies underway and proposed to strengthen cancer control efforts in the Asia Pacific. HPV vaccination and a regional cancer control dashboard are among the areas she highlighted.

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“It's of no use really for people to survive early childhood infectious diseases just to die prematurely of cancer,” observed a senior executive of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) underscoring the need for continued international co-operation to strengthen cancer control policy programs as countries in the diverse Asia-Pacific region manage competing healthcare priorities.

In an interview with Scrip, Dr Patti Gravitt, Deputy Director, Center for Global Health, NCI, noted that several APEC [Asia-Pacific...

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