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authors: Koczkodaj, Paweł; Wiseman, Kara P.; Little, Melissa; Anderson, Roger T.
title: Close the pack of cigarettes – close the care gap: Reflections after World Cancer Day 2022
date: 2022-05-09
journal: Tob Induc Dis
DOI: 10.18332/tid/148145
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2 behavioral risk factors such as tobacco use. Relying on a healthcare system as a main pillar of our approach to combat the burden of cancer can turn out to be very risky without a much larger commitment to cancer self-care and preventive services supported by community organizations.

World Cancer Day 2022 provides an excellent opportunity to rethink the term 'cancer care'. Taking responsibility for our own health becomes an extremely important issue in the fight against cancer. But it is also something we, as individuals, cannot do alone. 

The authors have each completed and submitted an ICMJE form for disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. The authors declare that they have no competing interests, financial or otherwise, related to the current work. K.P. Wiseman reports that in the past 36 months grants or contracts were received from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers UL1TR003015 and KL2TR003016.

The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. KW is an iTHRIV Scholar. The iTHRIV Scholars Program is supported in part by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health.

Ethical approval and informed consent were not required for this study.

Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created.

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The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors.

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