Not surprisingly, cancer researchers in Asia think their specialty deserves a higher priority global health . Today, during a discussion Forum Asia Cancer in Tsukuba, Japan, one speaker after another emphasized statistics showing that cancer, although the thought of such a scourge advanced country, is rapidly outstripping AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as a cause of premature death worldwide development. Yet, cancer is not mentioned as one of the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Shigeru Omi, former Regional Director World Health Organization for the Western Pacific now at Jichi Medical University in Tochigi Prefecture, drew murmurs of approval from the partisan crowd when he said the global health pendulum had gone too far to the fight against infectious diseases "at the expense of non-communicable diseases." He suggested that Japan use its influence with international organizations to rebalance priorities.
not so fast, countered Hiroyoshi Endo, an infectious disease specialist at the medical University of Tokyo women. say it offered "constructive criticism from someone in a competition for resources in the field," he noted that scientists from infectious diseases not only had very clear objectives, but proven methodologies and measures to reduce the burden of infectious diseases. "For cancer to be included in the Millennium Development Goals, there must be more explicit objectives and evaluation methods must be clarified," said Endo.
Hajime Inoue, a public health adviser to the government of China Prefectural, suggested cancer researchers do their homework and have solid proposals ready by 2015, the deadline for the current goals Millennium development and a likely starting point for a new global health priorities.
The cancer Asia forum held in conjunction with the 20th Cancer Conference Asia Pacific, running from 12 to 14 November.
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