A current view of oncology in Argentina

Since 2010, with the creation of the National Cancer Institute, the Argentine Republic has been tackling the battle against cancer as a genuine public health problem. Today in Argentina, there is a “cancer policy” whose pillars are prevention, education, assistance, and research. In this article, we...

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Autor principal: Huñis, Adrián Pablo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2016
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4756802/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26913073
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2016.622
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spelling pubmed-47568022016-02-24 A current view of oncology in Argentina Huñis, Adrián Pablo Ecancermedicalscience Short Communication Since 2010, with the creation of the National Cancer Institute, the Argentine Republic has been tackling the battle against cancer as a genuine public health problem. Today in Argentina, there is a “cancer policy” whose pillars are prevention, education, assistance, and research. In this article, we provide information about the incidence and mortality of the tumours most common in adults and children, and details of some epidemiological aspects and advances Argentina has achieved in the battle against cancer in the past decade. Cancer Intelligence 2016-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4756802/ /pubmed/26913073 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2016.622 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4756802/
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