This requires effective training programs that include hands-on field experience and high-quality mentoring.
Well-trained scientists equipped with advanced global oncology skills and competencies are needed to solve complex global cancer challenges. 3 To address growing inequities in cancer care, there is a need to frame cancer control actions and priorities to conform with localized patterns of risk factors and cancer types, available health care infrastructure and resources, and societal and cultural norms. Collaboration across all sectors of the global health and oncology communities will be required to realize the vision of equity and improved cancer outcomes worldwide.Īs science and innovation lead to improvements in cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and palliation, suffering and death as a result of cancer are becoming increasingly concentrated among the poor. Global oncology is a necessary academic field to train experts who can think critically about innovative solutions to global cancer care and control, with the tools and support to conduct research and implement change. This publication summarizes a set of 13 recommendations designed to advance the status of global oncology as an academic discipline. The ASCO Academic Global Oncology Task Force was established to analyze key issues and barriers toward the recognition of global oncology as an academic discipline, with an emphasis on training, research, and career pathways. To establish global oncology as a formal discipline, with strong research and well-defined training components. The outcome of the AGOTF was the development of recommendations designed to advance the status of global oncology as an academic discipline. The AGOTF was asked to collect and analyze key issues and barriers toward the recognition of global oncology as an academic discipline, with an emphasis on training, research, and career pathways, and produce a set of recommendations for ASCO action. As a result of this recommendation, in 2017, ASCO formed the Academic Global Oncology Task Force (AGOTF) to guide ASCO’s contributions toward formalizing the field of global oncology. The report suggested that ASCO could serve a role in transitioning global oncology from an informal field of largely voluntary activities to a more formal discipline with strong research and well-defined training components. Among the recommendations included in the 2016 Global Oncology Leadership Task Force report to the ASCO Board of Directors was that ASCO should promote the recognition of global oncology as an academic field. In recognition of the rising incidence and mortality of cancer in low- and middle-resource settings, as well as the increasingly international profile of its membership, ASCO has prioritized efforts to enhance its engagement at a global level.
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