title: Integrating cancer control into global health.
abstract: Many in the global health community have recently proposed that current efforts be expanded to include diseases typically associated with advanced economies, such as heart disease, mental health disorders, diabetes, and cancers. Here, we discuss ways in which the National Cancer Institute's newly formed Center for Global Health plans to stem the rising cancer burden in developing countries.
authors.affiliation: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. harold.varmus@nih.gov
authors.forename: Harold
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Varmus
authors.forename: Edward L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Trimble
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D054547:National Cancer Institute (U.S.); D009369:Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States