IAEA / CANCER

As the world focused on talks to supply Iran with nuclear fuel at IAEA headquarters in Vienna last week, one floor down, a silent crisis was being discussed. Cancer - and the imminent pandemic that will hit the developing world. Within 20 years - 70 percent of cancer patients will be in low income countries. IAEA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:05
• Production Date: 30 October 2009
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY - IAEA
• Subject Topical: HEALTH SERVICES; DISEASE PREVENTION; DISEASE CONTROL
• Geographic Subject: CHINA
• MAMS Id: U091030c

Description

STORY: IAEA / CANCER
TRT: 3:05
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 - 21 OCTOBER 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA / FILE

Shotlist

19 - 21 OCTOBER 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

1. Med shot, photographers and cameras filming meeting participants
2. Close-up, Iranian delegation
3. Med shot, fountain in front of UN building in Vienna, with satellite trucks in the back
4. Close-up, TV crew setting up for live broadcast
5. Med shot, IAEA Director General, Mohamed ElBaradei walking towards the meeting room
6. Wide shot, cameras crews filming delegates in meeting room
7. Med shot, speaker during meeting in front of audience
8. Med shot, meeting participants
9. Close-up, Ambassador Nancy Brinker, WHO Goodwill Ambassador & Susan G. Komen Foundation, Founding Chair, speaking during the meeting

FILE - 2006, KANDY GENERAL HOSPITAL, BANGLADESH

10. Pan left, patients in a cancer ward waiting room in Bangladesh

19 - 21 OCTOBER 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Peter Boyle, President, International Prevention Research Institute:
“ My big concern for the future is the growth of the number of new cases that will occur. It’s impact on families, it’s impact on premature death, that’s the major thing that’s going to happen, that’s the major priority that we have got to face up to the human aspects of the growth that is going to take place in cancer.”

FILE - 2008, BEIJING, CHINA

12. Med shot, pedestrians walking down a street
13. Pan left, sudience during 2008 Olympic games in China
14. Med shot, people walking outside Olympic stadium in China
15. Close-up, people in bus in China

19 - 21 OCTOBER 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Peter Boyle, President, International Prevention Research Institute:
“International Prevention Research Institute: “China’s just a model. India is going to be the same, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey, Russia; all these countries with huge populations are going to go through the same experience in the next twenty to thirty years.”

FILE - 2006, KANDY GENERAL HOSPITAL, BANGLADESH

17. Close-up, patient waiting in front of radiotherapy ward in Bangladesh

FILE – 2007, OCEAN ROAD CANCER INSTITUTE (ORCI) IN DAR ES SALAAM

18. Close-up, Child in a wheelchair waiting in a cancer ward
FILE - 2008, BEIJING, CHINA
19. Close-up, Female cancer patient

FILE – 2007, OCEAN ROAD CANCER INSTITUTE (ORCI) IN DAR ES SALAAM

20. Close-up, Young cancer patient sitting on hospital bed with his mother
21. Pan right, cancer patients in a hospital room

19 - 21 OCTOBER 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

22. SOUNDBITE (English) Massound Samiei, Head IAEA Programme Of Action For Cancer Therapy:
"Especially if you look at cancers of women, like cervical cancer and breast cancer there are lots of women who die unnecessarily can be cured and that is why the IAEA is in a position to intervene and help those countries”

FILE – 2008, NATIONAL CANCER HOSPITAL, HANOI, VIETNAM

23. Med shot, female cancer patients in a waiting room
24. Close-up, female patient waiting with her husband
25. Med shot, waiting room in a cancer ward
26. Pan left, female patient receiving radiotherapy treatment
27. Med shot, radiotherapy nurse in a cancer ward
28. Close-up, Chinese sign in a radiotherapy ward
29. Med shot, patients in a cancer ward receiving treatment

19 - 21 OCTOBER 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

30. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Nancy Brinker, WHO Goodwill Ambassador & Susan G. Komen Foundation, Founding Chair:
“This isn’t rocket science. It’s about understanding and applying what we know. This work isn’t sexy, it’s not glamorous, and it’s not the kind of science that gets people on fire. What it does do is reach into the hearts and minds of people. And now we have to reach into the pockets of Government, of huge Government Agencies to make commitments and have the political will to make all the treatments, screening and diagnosis that we enjoy or have available in one form or another in low resource countries.”

FILE - 2006, KANDY GENERAL HOSPITAL, BANGLADESH

31. Pan left, patients waiting on a terrace at a cancer hospital

Storyline

As the world’s media focused on talks to supply Iran with nuclear fuel at the IAEA’s headquarters in Vienna last week, one floor down, a silent crisis was also being discussed.

Largely ignored by the media, it’s the world’s biggest killer. Cancer, and the imminent pandemic that will hit the developing world. Within 20 years seventy percent of cancer patients will be in low income countries.

SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Peter Boyle, President, International Prevention Research Institute:
“ My big concern for the future is the growth of the number of new cases that will occur. It’s impact on families, it’s impact on premature death, that’s the major thing that’s going to happen, that’s the major priority that we have got to face up to the human aspects of the growth that is going to take place in cancer.”

Today about one quarter of the all the world’ cancer is found in China. And as the population ages, and the effect of risk factors such as cigarette smoking takes hold, cancers will surge.

SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Peter Boyle, President, International Prevention Research Institute:
“International Prevention Research Institute: “China’s just a model. India is going to be the same, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey, Russia; all these countries with huge populations are going to go through the same experience in the next twenty to thirty years.”

For many, cancer is a disease of great shame and pain – with few, if any options for treatment. Twenty-seven of the 53 countries in Africa have no radiotherapy services at all: no screening, no early diagnosis, no palliative care.

SOUNDBITE (English) Massound Samiei, Head IAEA Programme Of Action For Cancer
Therapy:
"Especially if you look at cancers of women, like cervical cancer and breast cancer there are lots of women who die unnecessarily can be cured and that is why the IAEA is in a position to intervene and help those countries”

The IAEA and its Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy is teaming with the World Health Organization and others in the cancer control fight -- to build a greater Global Force against the disease. PACT is training local staff, and identifying countries most pressing cancer needs, so that donors can respond effectively

SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Nancy Brinker, WHO Goodwill Ambassador & Susan G. Komen Foundation, Founding Chair:
“This isn’t rocket science. It’s about understanding and applying what we know. This work isn’t sexy, it’s not glamorous, and it’s not the kind of science that gets people on fire. What it does do is reach into the hearts and minds of people. And now we have to reach into the pockets of Government, of huge Government Agencies to make commitments and have the political will to make all the treatments, screening and diagnosis that we enjoy or have available in one form or another in low resource countries.”

For those stuck in the endless queue for treatment, this can not come fast enough.