On World Cancer Day, a call for united action in Africa paid IBM
and we’re pushing governments to allocate more resources toward fighting cancer. But it’s a daunting task.
Even now, cancer is by no means rare in Africa. The probability that a woman living in Kampala or Harare will develop cancer by the age of 65 is about 20 percent lower than for a woman in Western Europe, but the woman in Africa is less likely to survive the disease. And so the time to build a better cancer treatment system is now—not after the number of cases has doubled. To be sure, things are improving.
The guidelines for five of the most common cancers across sub-Saharan Africa are available to doctors through a new online tool developed by IBM called the Cancer Guidelines Navigator. Oncologists based in sub-Saharan Africa can input a clinical description for a cancer patient such as tumor type, stage, biomarker status and prior treatments, then see the relevant treatment options.
Member governments of the African Union have committed to giving 15 percent of their budgets to health care, through the Abuja Declaration signed in 2001. But few have made good on that promise. They need to be pressed to do so.
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