Dr Gary Rodin discusses the Lancet Oncology Commission on the Human Crisis in Cancer and its implications for cancer prevention and control in Africa, solutions in low-resource countries and the required cancer community response from an African perspective.

He continues to explain how the commission explores the growing disconnect between advances in cancer science and the lived experience of care. Despite improved survival outcomes, many patients and families continue to feel unheard and unsupported within systems that prioritise technical efficiency over human connection.