title: National plan for prevention, early detection, and cancer control in Peru.
abstract: Peru currently is executing an ambitious plan for cancer control: its first nationwide program of cancer prevention and cancer control, and the first such program launched in Latin America. The adequate strategies were identified from previous experience developing smaller initiatives and from knowledge of our epidemiology and priorities. The geographic landscape and sociocultural differences, in which inequalities play a significant role in access to quality education and specialized cancer care, are the main challenges to elaborate strategies to diminish our burden of advanced disease. Challenges were not only identified for the poorest people, but for other sectors of the population. With a growing Peruvian economy in a globalized market context, emerging sectors are being exposed to new risk factors for cancer and educational strategies were implemented. The development of the National Plan for Cancer Control was launched involving not only technical efforts by a multidisciplinary team, but also political concertation.
authors.affiliation: From the División de Investigación, Oncosalud, Lima, Peru.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vallejos
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration*; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D017048:Health Care Costs; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010568:Peru / Q000453:epidemiology; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D016730:Program Development