[Comment] Cancer in Peru: a detailed examination

In 2013, we published a Commission titled, Planning cancer control in Latin America and the Caribbean1 that highlighted the potential harms of an increasing cancer epidemic in a region where infrastructure and funding is ill-equipped to cope with non-communicable diseases. The Commission also detailed specific barriers to cancer control for countries in this region, and suggested possible measures by which these barriers could be overcome. We revisited this area in a second Commission published in 2015, Progress and remaining challenges for cancer control in Latin America and the Caribbean,2 which sought to examine what improvements had been made in the intervening years, what remained to be done, and what new issues had arisen.

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