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ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue -, Pages 11-24Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdt268
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- Center of Global Health, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Omani Cancer Association (OCA), Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
- American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Alexandria, VA, USA
- International Union for Cancer Control (UICC), Geneva, Switzerland
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The Middle Eastern population is aging rapidly, and as aging is the main risk factor for cancer, the incidence and prevalence of that disease are increasing among all the populations in the region. These developments represent huge challenges to national and community-based health services. At the current state of affairs, most Middle Eastern countries require the cooperation of international agencies in order to cope with such new challenges to their health systems. The focus and emphasis in facing these changing circumstances lie in the education and training of professionals, mainly physicians and nurses, at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels of health services. It is imperative that these training initiatives include clinical practice, with priority given to the creation of multidisciplinary teams both at the cancer centers and for home-based services.
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