The Middle East Cancer Consortium promotes palliative care

The Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC), established in 1996, is a unique and valuable non-governmental organisation that works in Middle Eastern countries and collaborates with regional Ministers of Health and international health-care organisations. MECC members, which include Egypt, Jordan, Pale...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 385; no. 9978; pp. 1620 - 1621
Main Authors Silbermann, Michael, Daher, Michel, Fahmi-Abdalla, Rasha, Jaloudi, Mohammed A, Hassan, Azza A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 25.04.2015
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Cancer
Cancer therapies
Cooperative Behavior
Culture
Health Promotion - organization & administration
Hospice care
Humans
Internal Medicine
Medical personnel
Middle East - epidemiology
Neoplasms - epidemiology
Neoplasms - therapy
Oncology
Palliative care
Palliative Care - organization & administration
Palliative Care - statistics & numerical data
Middle East
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Summary:The Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC), established in 1996, is a unique and valuable non-governmental organisation that works in Middle Eastern countries and collaborates with regional Ministers of Health and international health-care organisations. MECC members, which include Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, Turkey, and the USA, and countries such as Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Morocco, Iraq, Sudan, Qatar, and Oman, are actively participating in MECC's training programmes.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60791-7