Appendix A
Statement of Task
Ad hoc committees will plan and host a series of two 2-day public workshops to examine policy issues pertaining to the cancer care continuum in low-resource areas, both domestic and international.
The first workshop will focus on cancer prevention and early detection, while the second will focus on cancer treatment, palliative care, and survivorship care in low-resource communities. The workshops will feature invited presentations and panel discussions on topics that may include
- An overview of disparities in cancer control and outcomes, accounting for cultural and political barriers to access as well as resource constraints
- The current evidence base and strategies to support effective cancer prevention and risk reduction, diagnosis, and treatment in low-resource settings
- Key gaps in the evidence base and the challenges and opportunities to address those gaps to improve cancer outcomes for patients in low-resource populations
- Potential action steps for effectively applying the available evidence on cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in resource-constrained communities
- Principled evaluations of successes and failures in cancer control efforts in low-resource settings, which could serve as models for how to develop effective and affordable cancer control
The committee will develop the agendas for the workshop sessions, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions. Individually authored workshop summaries of the presentations and discussions at the workshops will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.
