India, Oct. 23 -- Making cancer treatment and care more accessible will be a top priority for Dr CS Pramesh, the new president-elect of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), which brings together more than 1,100 member organisations across 170 countries.

"I have seen both the extraordinary progress we have made and the substantial inequities that persist. My focus will be on learning from successful approaches, sharing them across countries and turning the common goal of equal cancer care into better outcomes for patients," said Dr Pramesh, director of Tata Memorial Hospital and professor and head of thoracic surgery at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai.

He was elected president of the UICC for the 2026-2028 term during the or...