Teleoncology: current and future applications for improving cancer care globally

摘要: Summary Access to quality cancer care is often unavailable in low-income and middle-income countries, also rural or remote areas of high-income countries. Teleoncology—oncology applications medical telecommunications, including pathology, radiology, other related disciplines—has the potential enhance access clinical care, improve education training. Implementation teleoncology developing world requires an approach tailored priorities, resources, needs. Teleoncology can best achieve its proposed goals through consistent long-term application. We review initiatives that have decrease cancer-care inequality between resource-poor resource-rich institutions offer guidelines for development programmes