Sponsored session - Making cancer care possible: Sharing experiences from MSF in humanitarian and low resource settings

Cancer increasingly affects people living in fragile, humanitarian and low resource settings, yet cancer care is often still considered too complex or resource intensive to deliver in these contexts. Drawing on MSF’s operational experience in countries including Malawi, Mali, Papua New Guinea, Kyrgyzstan and Eswatini, this session will explore how cancer care can be designed and delivered in challenging environments.The session will present practical lessons from MSF’s cancer activities across the care pathway, including prevention, screening, diagnosis, referral, treatment support, psychosocial care and palliative care. Speakers will discuss how models of care are adapted to different contexts and the critical elements required to support continuity of care for people with cancer.The discussion will also examine operational and access barriers that affect whether patients can complete care, including limited diagnostics, medicine shortages, lack of radiotherapy, financing challenges, procurement constraints and workforce capacity. Through operational examples and audience dialogue, the session will explore what MSF’s experience can contribute to the wider cancer community and what is needed to make cancer care possible in humanitarian and low-resource settings.