WORLD CANCER DAY / ADVANCER

In advance of World Cancer Day (4 Feb), head of the UN Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano calls for cancer to be established as a global health issue in developing countries. It is estimated that by 2030, over 13 million people worldwide will die from cancer every year and almost nine million of these deaths will be in the developing world. IAEA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:20
• Production Date: 3 February 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY - IAEA
• Subject Topical: HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; MEDICINE; MEDICAL SCIENCES
• MAMS Id: U110203e

Description

STORY: WORLD CANCER DAY / ADVANCER
TRT: 2:20
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: JANUARY 2011 / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – 2007, HAITI

1. Med shot, piles of medical history forms to crowded waiting room in hospital in Haiti

FILE – 2008, VIETNAM

2. Various shots, cancer patients at hospital in Vietnam

JANUARY 2011, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“I believe that cancer in developing countries should be established as a global health issue. And IAEA can help developing countries in the training of personnel, and in some cases, in the provision of equipment.”

FILE – 2010, KENYA

4. Med shot, patients waiting in hospital in Kenya
5. Med shot, female patients waiting in hospital in Kenya

JANUARY 2011, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Massoud Samiei, Director, Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“When you go to some of these cancer hospitals in Africa or Asia and the type of difficulties and sometimes the miseries you see, you see that the mission of the IAEA is so important that there isn’t a minute that we should waste.”

FILE – 2010, TANZANIA

7. Med shot, patient being treated at Ocean Road Cancer Institute in Tanzania
8. Med shot, female patient’s back and face during radiation treatment
9. Med shot, control panel of radiological equipment
10. Med shot, doctors discussing patients’ medical history

JANUARY 2011, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“We are working with other international organizations like WHO as well as with other stakeholders. And world leaders are getting more and more aware of this issue. Developing countries are not alone.”

FILE – 2006, BAKU, AZERBAIJAN

12. Various shots, female patient getting ready to receive radiological treatment
Med shot, computer screen displaying patient undergoing radiological treatment

JANUARY 2011, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Massoud Samiei, Director, Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“There is already a movement within the United Nations to address non-communicable diseases, including cancer, to give it more priority. And I think that this is also a significant development. A couple of years ago there was no attention to non-communicable diseases like cancer, heart diseases in developing countries. So that is another thing that gives us hope for the future. And I am sure that we will be successful in the next ten, fifteen years.”

FILE – 2010, KENYA

14. Med shot, patient undergoing radiology treatment at hospital in Kenya
15. Close-up, technician’s hand operating control panel of equipment
16. Close-up, doctor looking at medical records

Storyline

It is estimated that by 2030 over 13 million people worldwide will die from cancer every year and almost nine million of these deaths will be in the developing world.

SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“I believe that cancer in developing countries should be established as a global health issue. And IAEA can help developing countries in the training of personnel, and in some cases, in the provision of equipment.”

Cancer is on the increase globally. The disease now kills nearly eight million annually, but developing countries are worst hit by the cancer crisis since the resources needed to prevent, diagnose and treat the disease are severely limited or non-existent.

SOUNDBITE (English) Massoud Samiei, Director, Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“When you go to some of these cancer hospitals in Africa or Asia and the type of difficulties and sometimes the miseries you see, you see that the mission of the IAEA is so important that there isn’t a minute that we should waste.”

Around 70 percent of cancer deaths already occur in the developing world, although more than a third of cancers can be prevented and a third can be cured if detected early and treated properly.

But many low-income countries do not have prevention and early detection programmes, and not even a single radiation therapy machine, so millions of people who could be successfully treated die every year.

For over forty years, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been assisting developing countries in the field of cancer management.

SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“We are working with other international organizations like WHO as well as with other stakeholders. And world leaders are getting more and more aware of this issue. Developing countries are not alone.”

The IAEA’s expertise lies in radiotherapy, nuclear medicine and radiology and the Agency provides equipment and training and delivers know-how and technical support to help developing countries establish cancer control policies and centres.

It also operates a project that deals specifically with cancer control – the Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy or PACT.

SOUNDBITE (English) Massoud Samiei, Director, Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“There is already a movement within the United Nations to address non-communicable diseases, including cancer, to give it more priority. And I think that this is also a significant development. A couple of years ago there was no attention to non-communicable diseases like cancer, heart diseases in developing countries. So that is another thing that gives us hope for the future. And I am sure that we will be successful in the next ten, fifteen years.”

Building on the IAEA’s expertise in radiation medicine, PACT works closely with leading, international organisations to raise awareness of cancer in developing countries and to establish comprehensive national cancer control programmes.

PACT is also addressing the chronic shortage of trained medical staff in the cancer field, the lack of access to radiotherapy facilities and insufficient actions on prevention and early diagnosis.