Prevention and early detection
- Increase efforts to reduce tobacco consumption by encouraging governments to fully implement and enforce the FCTC,
- Raise awareness about the need for culturally sensitive cancer risk reduction campaigns, along with public and professional education about cancer warning signs. Push governments to implement policies that will support risk-reducing strategies at a community level and enable individuals to make more informed consumption choices and adopt healthier behaviour,
- Encourage governments to implement measures to reduce people’s exposure to environmental and occupational carcinogens,
- Undertake actions to ensure that vaccines and other strategies that are shown to prevent cancer-causing infections are made more widely available,
- Advocate for the provision of affordable screening programmes for which there is evidence of efficacy in the population in question.
- Undertake pilot projects that are designed to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy in populations in which the screening technology has not yet been tested.
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