[...]... returned to Rwanda after my cancer treatment, I have seen doctors begin treating children with cancer in Rwandan hospitals, with medications and advice from doctors and hospitals in the USA I hope that more doctors in Rwanda can be trained to provide cancer care, since most kids with cancer would never have the opportunity to leave Rwanda for treatment I hope to see kids with cancer in Rwanda finding treatment... FEMAMA Forum of African First Ladies Against Breast & Cervical Cancer Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Fundación Plenitud Global Access to Pain Relief Initiative, UICC Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria Global Health Council Harrington Memorial Hospital Harvard University Press Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Instituto Jalisciense... report, the seminal product of the GTF.CCC I am thrilled to share this report as a starting point to a unified vision and as a testament that change is within our grasp Our success story at the King Hussein Cancer Foundation and Center in Jordan lends me the complete confidence to say that cancer care and control can be achieved in low and middle income countries Despite the many challenges faced along the. .. real to us, and remain real to us today as we continue to provide international quality cancer care in a resourcepoor, middle income country and in a region where many countries still do not have access to quality cancer care What is unique about the GTF.CCC is that it applies a two pronged approach: First, the idealist prong which pushes for best practices in global funding and sustainable international... M anagement Science for Health K ing Hussein Cancer Foundation and Center Seattle Cancer Care Alliance American Cancer Society China Medical Board National Cancer Institutes Fogarty International Center Fundación Mexicana para la Salud GlaxsoSmithK line EMD Serono Union for International Cancer Control Hoffman & Hoffman PR The GTF.CCC and Secretariat would like to express their sincerest gratitude to. .. Heidi Kleedtke Eric Krakauer Suneeta Krishnan Ksenia Koon Eric Krakauer Garrett Krik Richard Laing Mary Ann Lane Jeremy Lauer David Lee Daisy Leo Ana Ley Douglas Lowy Leslie Lemann Guohong Li Tatiana Lingos Yuanli Liu Amalia Lizárraga Silvana Luciani Roberto Rivera Luna Jing Ma Maricela Macías Laura Maga a Joanne Manrique Angela Marmo Jaime Andres Giraldo Marmolejo Mario Márquez xiii •• •• •• •• •• ••... orphanage invited some other doctors to come look at me It was a Sunday evening Those doctors told me that I had cancer and that there was nothing they could do to save my leg They had to amputate it When I heard what they said, I felt lost and confused I didn’t know what to say to them I screamed and yelled at them, thinking that they hated me I could not believe what my ears were hearing I started... one in which we can envision a more equitable future The change we envision can only be accomplished through coordinated and informed action The combined efforts of the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries (GTF.CCC) and the cancer and global health communities are leading to increased awareness of the truth about cancer We have begun to dispel the. .. to her The doctors did not adequately examine her and told her that the mass she had was only fatty substance, and that it was not necessary to do any testing Over the months to come, my mom noticed that the lump grew and began to feel light stinging, but relying on her doctor’s advice, we let time pass, allowing the disease to make threatening advances, and when she was finally diagnosed with breast... international support for cancer – similar to the support afforded to AIDS, Malaria and TB And second, the realistic prong which recognizes the limitations on the ground and works despite them, through them and around them to reach its objectives One of the many examples of this is Rwanda where, rather than leave a patient untreated, chemotherapy was safely prepared, administered and monitored despite the lack . Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries. Closing the Cancer Divide: A Blueprint to Expand Access in Low and Middle Income Countries. . Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries Closing the Cancer Divide: A Blueprint to Expand Access in Low and Middle Income Countries. First