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The need to build on recent progress

About this report

Cancer preparedness in Latin America: The need to build on recent

progress is a report written by The Economist Intelligence Unit

and sponsored by Roche. The content of this report is solely the

responsibility of The Economist Intelligence Unit and the views

expressed are not necessarily those of the sponsor.

The report looks at the diversity of the cancer challenge in Latin

America, the current extent of efforts to address the disease, and the

essential elements to building enhanced preparedness. The 12 Central

and South American countries included in this study were chosen for

various factors including size and level of economic development:

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico,

Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. The report is based on several

strands of research, as follows.

First, it explores the findings of the Index of Cancer Preparedness

(ICP)—Latin America, which is the Latin American regional index

based on the global ICP of initially 28 countries.^1 It looks at a wide

range of elements that are relevant to cancer control in the region.

Created by EIU Healthcare with an advisory board of experts, the ICP

combines findings from around 45 separate indicators to provide a

comprehensive overview of how well the 12 included countries are

doing in the key areas of this challenge.

Additionally, we conducted interviews with senior health-system

officials, clinicians, cancer-control experts and patient-group leaders to

obtain a more in-depth view of the issues involved.

Finally, supporting the research and feeding into this publication has

been substantial desk research for further study of specific topics that

the ICP and interviews raised.

Our thanks are due to the following for their time and insight (listed

alphabetically):

• Silvina Frech, Latin America director, City Cancer Challenge
  Foundation


• Julia Ismael, head, National Cancer Institute, Argentina


• Andre Cezar Medici, senior health economist, World Bank


• Wilson Merino Rivadeneira, co-ordinator, Red Nacional Acuerdo
  Contra el Cáncer, Ecuador

1 The global ICP is discussed in The Economist Intelligence Unit, Cancer preparedness around the world: National readiness for a global epidemic, 2018,
https://worldcancerinitiative.economist.com/pdf/Cancer_preparedness_around_the_world.pdf