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ASCO: Cancer prevention strategies
Professor Peter Boyle, International Prevention Research Institute.
Prof. Boyle discusses the issue of world cancer disparities such as risk factors and treatment and how the International Prevention Research Institute is working on prevention strategies.
this afternoon i'm talking about the the global situation of cancer disparities which is to try and put in context you know the huge differences and disparities which exist between the world both in terms of risk factors incidence mortality treatment and palliative care we've got quite a few projects we don't only work in cancer we also work in diabetes we work in cardiovascular disease but the main thrust of our work is to look at and what really is known about prevention and what needs to be done to enhance prevention certain particular areas there's a lot of controversial issues like prostate cancer screening which we've been discussing for the last couple of months prostate cancer prevention as dr brawley said but also there's a lot of interest about vitamin d and about various other factors where the evidence isn't so strong and yet there's a lot of advice given to the public from the media that this can prevent this and such and such can prevent that in actual fact you need to do a lot more work to bring all the information together to prevent clear prevention strategies to the population i think the nice thing about oncology is we'll get into and as opposed to 20 years ago we're always looking for the magic bullet in the big breakthrough now we're much more content to drive forward just a little take a little bit of an advance in various types of cancers at a time and i think that's a that's a remarkable change in the attitude of the scientific and the oncological community to to think that they are moving forward they're moving forward very slowly but it's continual and it's defined and it's finite but it is real progress that has been made
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