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Now that modern ART and cancer treatment options make ART timing and DDIs less complex, ART initiation during cancer therapy may be less problematic in the United States. However, in sub-Saharan Africa, where the largest burden of HIVAM exists

newer concept. Conversations with colleagues in Sub-Saharan Africa during guideline harmonizations emphasized that some challenges in providing good oncology care are fundamentally similar despite variations in resource accessibility. Collaborations with

NCCN Harmonized Guidelines for Sub-Saharan Africa. “While the medical community has made monumental strides toward reducing the impact of HIV and AIDS, there are still more than a million people living with HIV in the United States today,” 2

helping develop Harmonized Guidelines in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, where the NCCN Guidelines are modified to account for specific resource availability and regulatory issues. I see NCCN continuing to expand its international footprint and

define and advance high-quality, high-value, patient-centered cancer care globally. That includes adapting guidelines to make them more applicable in low- and middle-income countries. There are now a total of 19 NCCN Harmonized Guidelines for Sub-Saharan

-resource settings in sub-Saharan Africa—as part of the group Allied Against Cancer working in collaboration with the African Cancer Coalition (ACC), American Cancer Society (ACS), the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), and IBM. They have also been rewritten in

significant risk factor for advanced PCa, with the lifetime risk of dying from PCa reported to increase by 2.3- to 5-fold for African Americans compared with all other ethnic groups within the United States. 5 For sub-Saharan Africa, PCa mortality rates are

Frameworks are a few of several tools that can improve cancer care in the developing world. Dr. Dans also discussed another of these tools, the NCCN Harmonized Guidelines for Sub-Saharan Africa, a joint project with the NCCN, American Cancer Society, Clinton

/Gastric, Occult Primary Cancers, and Older Adult Oncology Panels; was a member of the JNCCN Editorial Board; served on numerous abstract and scientific review committees; and participated on the NCCN Harmonized Guidelines for Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to

. Cervical cancer has the 4th highest cancer incidence in women worldwide, with the highest incidence and mortality in predominantly resource-constrained regions of the world, including Sub-Saharan Africa (where NCCN recently helped launch Allied Against