The Anti-Cancer League and public outreach for cancer control in Peru

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ID3072522
AuthorsRaúl Necochea López (0000-0002-6242-5130, University of North Carolina, USA, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume27
Issuesuppl 1
Pages49-69
Publication date2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistória Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0104-5970 • E-ISSN: 1678-4758
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0104-59702020000300004
PMID32997057
OpenAlexW3088848130
SCIELO_PIDS0104-59702020000900049
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited19

Peru's first cancer control public outreach scheme started in the 1910s, but ground to a standstill as it attained official governmental recognition in 1926 as the Liga Anti-Cancerosa (LAC). This paper explains the developments leading to that earliest effort to enlist a coalition of State health agencies, physicians, and lay people in a campaign to publicize early signs of this disease, as well as the medical and political reasons for and implications of its decline. Besides highlighting the importance of professional initiatives shaping cancer activism, contextualizing the rise and fall of the LAC calls attention to the effects that hospitalization of cancer treatment had on aspects of cancer care that were not directly treatment-related, such as public outreach

Cancer · Control (management) · Economic growth · Economics · League · Management · Outreach · Political science · Politics · Public health · Public relations · State (computer science) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Public Administration

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