The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today the launch of a first global survey on the experiences and needs of cancer patients, in order to "amplify the voices" in a disease that will affect one in five people in the world at some point in their lives.
The survey will collect data from 100,000 people in 100 countries, mostly belonging to low- and middle-income economies, and its results will be known in 2023 so that in the future they will help design health policies, prevention and care programs, and services for those affected by cancer throughout the world.
"The focus in controlling cancer has been for too long on clinical care, and not on the broader needs of those affected"highlighted in a statement the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who affirmed that "Policies for the disease must be built with more than just figures". Previous studies already underline, in this sense, that almost half of those diagnosed with cancer experience anxiety, loss of confidence and could lose their partners, or that in developing countries 70% of those affected suffer financial problems and loss of your heritage. It is also sought that caregivers of cancer patients and family members be taken into account in this study around a disease that, according to the WHO, "affects virtually every family in the world"
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