Cancer Care in Afghanistan: Perspectives on Health Services Under the Taliban Regime

JCO Glob Oncol. 2023 Sep:9:e2300358. doi: 10.1200/GO.23.00358.

Authors

Alaha Nasari¹, Amina Surosh Nasari¹, Sammer Marzouk¹, Edward Christopher Dee¹, Faramarz Jahanbeen¹

Affiliation

¹ Alaha Nasari, BA, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Amina Surosh Nasari, MD, CUNY School of Medicine, New York, NY; Sammer Marzouk, MA, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Edward Christopher Dee, MD, Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; and Faramarz Jahanbeen, MD, MBA, MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

PMID: 37972331
PMCID: PMC10846784 (available on 2024-11-16)
DOI: 10.1200/GO.23.00358

Abstract

Cancer landscape in Afghanistan continues to suffer under Taliban—global support is essential.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Afghanistan / epidemiology
Health Services
Health Services Accessibility
Humans
Neoplasms* / therapy

Grants and funding

P30 CA008748/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States