# The Lancet Global Health

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## TL;DR

The Lancet's open-access global-health journal: where the numbers on cancer burden, survival gaps and treatment access in low- and middle-income countries are published.

## Summary

Fully open access. Carries GLOBOCAN-based incidence and mortality analyses, the CONCORD cancer-survival programme, cervical-cancer elimination modelling and costing studies for scaling radiotherapy and chemotherapy access. Essential reading for anyone working on the 70 percent of cancer deaths that occur outside high-income countries.

## Fields

- Kind: Journal
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: Lancet Glob Health
- Publisher: Elsevier
- Scope: global health
- Access: open-access

## Sources

- Cancer collection: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/collections

## Connected records

- collections: [GLOBOCAN / Global Cancer Observatory](https://onco.cc/collections/globocan/)
- terms: [Chemotherapy](https://onco.cc/terms/chemotherapy-term/), [Mortality](https://onco.cc/terms/mortality/), [Radiotherapy](https://onco.cc/terms/radiotherapy/)
- people: [Elisabete Weiderpass](https://onco.cc/people/weiderpass-elisabete/)
- key papers: [Low-cost oral metronomic chemotherapy versus intravenous cisplatin in patients with recurrent, metastatic, inoperable head and neck carcinoma: an open-label, parallel-group, non-inferiority, randomised, phase 3 trial](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-patil-lancet-glob-health/)

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