Abstract
We provide an overview of the challenges that low-resource setting cities are facing, including a lack of global implementation of cancer screening programs, accurate data and statistics that may aid the health authorities and guide future public health activities, as well as reorient strategies, interventions and budgets to promote lifestyles that help prevent disease. Current cancer care does not fully reflect ethnic, cultural, environmental and resource differences. Herein, we described a snapshot of the cancer mortality and morbidity from a hospital that cares a rural and low-income population from Peru, called Chimbote (316,966 inhabitants) and showed the limitation of access to oncological care and genetic services. The city is located in the region of Ancash, which is a department of Northern Peru. Of note, we identified a greater proportion of cancer cases than previously described, with a young age of onset and differential profile of the most frequent cancers. With the emergence of increasingly effective interventions, it becomes paramount that populations living in resource-limited settings have access to cancer services and participate in genetics and genomic research.
Highlights
Accepted: 30 December 2020Cancer registries represent a resource for researchers to analyse the cancer burden, assess differences between cancer treatments and allow national cancer control planning in the context of the country’s sociocultural environment and health-care system
In Latin America and the Caribbean, there is a low level of reporting of cancer cases, and insufficient organization and funding of cancer registries compared to Europe and the United States
6% of the Latin American and Caribbean population is covered by populationbased cancer registries, compared with 96% of the United States and 32% of European populations [1,2]
Summary
Cancer registries represent a resource for researchers to analyse the cancer burden, assess differences between cancer treatments and allow national cancer control planning in the context of the country’s sociocultural environment and health-care system. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 1470 rates of cancer incidence and cancer deaths could be associated with lifestyle behaviours, including diet, physical inactivity and obesity, but may reflect the limited availability of screening programmes, early diagnosis, and curative treatment programmes. Public Health 2021, 18, 1470 rates of cancer incidence and cancer deaths could be associated with lifestyle behaviours, including diet, physical inactivity and obesity, but may reflect the limited availability of screening programmes, early diagnosis, and curative treatment programmes This is the result of the suboptimal organisation of national health systems, as well as social, cultural, and economic inequalities in the country [1,6,7,8]. Some initiatives have emerged in some states of Mexico and awareness campaigns have been carried out in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Venezuela [12]
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