Expansion of cancer care and control in countries of low and middle income: a call to action.

The article explores the feasibility of comprehensive cancer control which merits a worldwide effort to expand cancer prevention in middle- and low-income countries. It offers information on the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries. It discusses the important role played by a combination of increased access to primary care and well designed disease-control programmes in enhancing cancer care and control. An overview of the cancer control and treatment programmes of several countries is also presented.