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Last week, Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto received an anonymous donation of $100M as part of a $2.5B campaign for cancer care. It’s incredible generosity, and PMH does wonderful, lifesaving work.

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At the same time, there’s a global context: that single $100M gift is more than what many low-income countries spent on health from their own budgets in all of 2023. Source: data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH...

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That’s domestic government spending only. In other words, what each country funds from its own resources— not counting foreign aid— for a full year. On EVERYTHING related to health.

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In many countries, even basic cancer care remains out of reach. For them, the systems to deliver this type of care don’t yet exist.

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So many of the challenges the world faces are rooted in inequality: of resources, income, and access to health care. The ambition we have for cancer care in wealthy countries should be the ambition we have for patients everywhere.