title: Cancer control in low- and middle-income countries: the role of primary care physicians.
abstract: Cancer is among the most preventable and the most curable of the major chronic life-threatening diseases. As the cancer burden grows, it is evident that new approaches must be developed to more effectively manage the disease. Given their unique role, primary care physicians and health workers are critically important to these interventions and to the successful implementation of comprehensive cancer control strategies. In this article, an overview of the epidemiologic trends related to cancer is provided, several special circumstances affecting cancer control efforts in low- and middle-income countries are identified, and broad and specific approaches for primary care physicians and other primary care health workers to prevent and control cancer are recommended.
authors.affiliation: American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street NW, Suite 600, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA. nathan.grey@cancer.org
authors.forename: Nathan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Grey
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Garces
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries; D014943:Global Health; D015438:Health Behavior; D006266:Health Education; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D010821:Physicians, Family; D011203:Poverty; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors