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ArticleEcancermedicalscience2020

Cancer research in the 57 Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries, 2008-17.

Grant Lewison, Shoaib Fahad Hussain, Ping Guo, Richard Harding, Deborah Mukherji, Ghassan Abu Sittah, Ajay Aggarwal, Fouad Fouad, Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy, Omar Shamieh and 3 more

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Article in Ecancermedicalscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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13 authors.

Grant LewisonKing's College London, Institute for Cancer Policy, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT, UK.
Shoaib Fahad HussainConflict and Health Research Group, School of Security Studies, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK.
Ping GuoSchool of Nursing, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
Richard HardingFlorence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London, London SE 9PJ, UK.
Deborah MukherjiAmerican University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Ghassan Abu SittahAmerican University of Beirut, Global Health Institute, Beirut, Lebanon.
Ajay AggarwalKing's College London, Institute for Cancer Policy, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT, UK.
Fouad FouadAmerican University of Beirut, Faculty of Health Science, Beirut, Lebanon.
Nirmala Bhoo-PathyCentre for Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Practice, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603, Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Omar ShamiehKing Hussein Cancer Centre, Amman, Jordan.
Julie TorodeUnion for International Cancer Control (UICC), Avenue Giuseppe Motta 31-33, 1202, Geneva, Switzerland.
Tezer KutlukHaceteppe University, Ankara 06100, Turkey.
Richard SullivanKing's College London, Institute for Cancer Policy, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND

objectivesThe 57 countries of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) are experiencing rapid increases in their burden of cancer. The First Ladies Against Cancer meeting at the 2016 OIC meeting in Istanbul committed to the importance of cancer control and the need for more evidence to support national cancer control planning (NCCP). Strong research systems are a crucial aspect of NCCP, but few data exist to support policy-makers across this political grouping. METHODOLOGY: We identified all cancer research papers from OIC countries in the Web of Science from 2008 to 2017 with a filter based on journal names and title words, with high precision and recall. We analysed the country outputs, the cancer sites investigated, the types of research, sources of funding and the citations to the papers.

resultsThere were 49,712 cancer research papers over this period. The leading countries in terms of output were Turkey, Iran, Egypt and Malaysia, but the most cited papers were from Qatar, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. International collaboration was low, except in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The site-specific cancers accounting for most research were breast and blood, correlating with their disease burden in the OIC countries, but lung, cervical and oesophageal cancers were relatively under-researched. Most funding from within the OIC countries was from their own university sector.

conclusionCancer is seriously under-researched in most of the OIC countries. This will undermine the ability of these countries and OIC as a whole to deliver on better cancer control for their populations. New policies, OIC leadership and funding are urgently needed to address this situation.

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