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