04 February 2010
GE Healthcare spotlights the possibilities of connected oncology care during World Cancer Day
- Focus on healthymagination, GE’s initiative on lower healthcare costs, increased access, and improved quality worldwide
- Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world, particularly in developing countries
- Clinical tools can make a difference in patient care, from research through treatment and follow up
Waukesha, WI February 4, 2010: Cancer is a leading cause of death around the world. GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), is working with physicians around the world to help clinicians realize the possibilities of connected oncology care. Every year on February 4th World Cancer Day, attention is focused on addressing the many challenges of cancer and cancer care.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 84 million people worldwide will die from cancer between 2005 and 2015 without intervention. Many of these deaths can be avoided. According to WHO, over 30% of all cancers can be prevented. Others can be detected early, treated and potentially cured. Even with late stage cancer, there are still many opportunities to help reduce the suffering of patients, and make care even more effective.
Enabling cutting-edge research, helping strengthen cancer diagnosis, facilitating treatment, and simplifying information sharing among the members of cancer care teams is at the core of GE Healthcare’s approach to oncology. Oncology care is about making connections, between the disease and treatment, between the patients and the multi-disciplinary clinical team. With a broad portfolio of offerings and solutions for oncology, GE Healthcare spans the continuum of oncology care. That comprehensive spectrum viewpoint can provide key advantages, particularly in something as complex as cancer and cancer care.
“Cancer represents a tremendous burden on patients, families and societies. Moreover, cancer is a complex disease where so much information needs to be brought together to fit the care to the patient,” said Robert Dann, Global Oncology Marketing Executive at GE Healthcare. “Every day dedicated oncology teams around the world are searching for solutions that will help them manage the many variables and provide quality care for their patients.”
The emphasis on cancer diagnostic and care products follows reports on the increasing incidence of cancer and other lifestyle diseases around the world. “This growth in disease puts tremendous pressure on governments and leads to mounting healthcare bills, expected to grow fivefold by 2025,” added Dann. “GE’s products and solutions facilitate early diagnosis, and can aid improving the quality of treatment decisions. This approach builds on our healthymagination initiative to reduce cost of healthcare delivery and improve quality of care throughout the world.”
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References:
1-. WHO Cancer Fact Sheet http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs297/en/index.html (04/02/09) http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/cancer/en/index.html
About GE Healthcare:
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and performance solutions services help our customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare systems.
Our “healthymagination” vision for the future invites the world to join us on our journey as we continuously develop innovations focused on reducing costs, increasing access and improving quality and efficiency around the world. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a US$17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.
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