Oncology in the Concept of Tropical Medicine: To Be or Not to Be?

Abstract

An introductory remark is necessary. The considerations to come later in the book are part of the vision of the so-called Western medicine, sometimes called scientific medicine, that is to say, the vision prevailing widely in the medical and scientific world of developed countries and those associated with them. Furthermore geography may be abused because when we talk about the countries of the South to set health priorities or dominant pathologies, Australia and New Zealand, to name only these two countries, despite their geographical position, will, of course, not be affected. Anyway, the fight against cancer would be optimized: detect early, closer to population and treatment without delay and having also an active policy in area of prevention. But if the status of Tropical Oncology and reasoning in absolute terms must be improve, it is logical to see cancer winning in the hierarchy of medical concerns.