# Public country dashboards for the three WHO breast cancer targets

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## TL;DR

The WHO set three simple goals for breast cancer: most cancers found early, diagnosis within 60 days, and most patients finishing treatment. Every country should publish how it is doing on each, every year.

## Summary

The WHO Global Breast Cancer Initiative pillars are: at least 60% of invasive cancers diagnosed at stage I-II, diagnosis within 60 days of presentation, and at least 80% of patients completing multimodal treatment. These are measurable with modest registry and hospital data. A public, comparable dashboard would focus ministries and donors on the delivery gaps rather than on new technology, and would show which policy changes move the numbers.

## Fields

- Kind: Idea
- Last checked: 2026-09-08
- Hypothesis: Countries publishing annual GBCI indicators will improve at least two of the three indicators by ten percentage points within four years, faster than non-reporting comparators.
- Rationale: Measurement with public accountability drove vaccine coverage and maternal mortality reporting; breast cancer has clear, accepted indicators but no reporting habit.
- Proposed test: Support ten countries to report baseline and annual indicators; compare trajectories with matched non-reporting countries using registry data.
- Maturity: being-tested-at-scale
- Actor: policy

## Sources

- WHO Global Breast Cancer Initiative: https://www.who.int/initiatives/global-breast-cancer-initiative

## Connected records

- collections: [GLOBOCAN / Global Cancer Observatory](https://onco.cc/collections/globocan/)
- cancers: [HER2-positive breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-her2-positive/), [HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/), [Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)](https://onco.cc/cancers/tnbc/)
- bottlenecks: [Fragmented care and guideline gaps](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-care-fragmentation/), [Most of the world has almost no cancer care](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-global-access/), [Weak real-world evidence and registries](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-real-world-evidence/)

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