WHO EMRO | Scaling up cancer care in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

PDF version Commentary Gemma Lyons1, Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan2, Anthony B Millar3 and Slim Slama1 1WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt (Correspondence to: Slim Slama: slamas@who.int) 2WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France 3University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

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