Background Inclusive universal health coverage requires access to quality health care
without financial barriers. Receipt of palliative care after advanced cancer diagnosis might …

Objective Evidence of the role of palliative care to reduce financial hardship and to support
wellbeing in low/middle-income countries (LMIC) is growing, though standardised tools to …

Background: Palliative care improves outcomes for people with cancer, but in many
countries access remains poor. Understanding future needs is essential for effective health …

Low-and medium-resource countries are facing a significant increase in the incidence of
noncommunicable diseases such as cancer. Unfortunately, the majority of patients with …

Roughly half a million people die of cancer in sub-Saharan Africa every year. Despite rapid
expansion of palliative care for cancer, coverage remains woefully inadequate. The WHO …

As cancer detection rates and therapy successes increase in high-income countries, it is
predicted that over the next decade more than 75% of cancer-related deaths will occur in …

Background One of the biggest obstacles to developing policies in cancer care in Southeast
Asia is lack of reliable data on disease burden and economic consequences. In 2012, we …

Background Complementary medicine, which refers to therapies that are not part of
conventional medicine, comprising both evidence-based and non-evidence-based …

Background: A comprehensive assessment of patients' problems and needs is essential for
all patients with chronic diseases, including cancer. Aim: This study assesses the problems …

Since the last comprehensive review on the development of national palliative care in Africa
was undertaken 12 years ago, in 2005, we did a scoping review of peer-reviewed, published …