Hiatt Robert A
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Cancer Causes Control. 2006 Jun;17(5):639-46. doi: 10.1007/s10552-006-0003-0.
Cancer surveillance is entering an exciting era where the scope of its activities will be expanded and the amount, quality, and depth of information on cancer will be richer and more readily available to practitioners, decision makers and the public. This future is being built on a solid history of accomplishment that has placed cancer foremost among all chronic diseases in the organization and implementation of a systematic and integrated monitoring enterprise that is of essential value in both clinical medicine and public health. The future of cancer surveillance will be driven not only by innovations in methods of cancer surveillance itself, but also by developments in information technology and communication and by revolutionary new tools used in the delivery of medical care. At the same time, it will be a challenge to ensure levels of privacy and confidentiality needed to maintain the public trust. In the Cancer Surveillance and Information Summit, a 2004 conference sponsored by C-Change, experts from the field and from allied and related disciplines in both the public and private sectors met to consider the future of the cancer surveillance enterprise. Seven recommendations, detailed in this article, emerged from the conference to guide future growth and development. Steps that can and should be taken by all individuals and groups involved in cancer surveillance were included. The shared view is that cancer surveillance and information is essential to fulfill a vision for a future where cancer is prevented, detected early, and either cured or managed successfully as a chronic illness.
癌症监测正步入一个令人兴奋的时代，其活动范围将得到扩大，癌症信息的数量、质量和深度将更加丰富，从业者、决策者和公众将更容易获取这些信息。这一未来是建立在坚实的成就基础之上的，在组织和实施系统且综合的监测工作方面，癌症监测在所有慢性病中处于首要地位，这在临床医学和公共卫生领域都具有至关重要的价值。癌症监测的未来不仅将由癌症监测方法本身的创新所驱动，还将受到信息技术与通信发展以及医疗服务中使用的革命性新工具的推动。与此同时，确保维护公众信任所需的隐私和保密水平将是一项挑战。在由C-Change主办的2004年癌症监测与信息峰会上，来自该领域以及公共和私营部门相关及 allied 学科的专家齐聚一堂，探讨癌症监测事业的未来。本文详细阐述了会议提出的七项建议，以指导未来的发展。其中包括所有参与癌症监测的个人和团体能够且应该采取的步骤。大家的共同观点是，癌症监测和信息对于实现一个癌症能够被预防、早期发现，并作为慢性病被成功治愈或管理的未来愿景至关重要。 （注：“allied”这里翻译为“相关的”，感觉原文这里表述有点奇怪，推测可能是想表达相关联的学科，但不确定是否准确）
