Cancer Education and Training — The Public

Abstract

In many countries of the world where there is recognised widespread poverty and enormous difficulties in travelling to and from hospitals, it is perhaps understandable that advanced malignant disease is a common occurrence. In a society such as ours, however, with all the advantages of high-powered education, sophisticated medical facilities and easy travel, it might be expected that advanced cancer would only be seen as a result of failed treatment. Such is not the case. Wards in hospitals throughout the country bear witness to this sad state of affairs, perhaps exemplified most cruelly by the appalling number of women with previously untreated advanced cancers of the breast.