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Health ministry panel calls for consolidating cancer care provision

Summary by The Japan Times
A health ministry panel has called for consolidating surgeries and radiotherapies for cancer treatment, citing such reasons as the dwindling number of surgeons in Japan.

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Health ministry panel calls for consolidating cancer care provision

A health ministry panel has called for consolidating surgeries and radiotherapies for cancer treatment, citing such reasons as the dwindling number of surgeons in Japan.

·Japan
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Cancer Surgery Doctors Will Be Short by 5,000 by 2040: "Current Medical Care May Not Be Able to Continue": Asahi Shimbun

According to estimates by related academic societies, there is expected to be a shortage of approximately 5,000 gastrointestinal surgeons who perform cancer surgery by 2040. If this trend continues, there is a risk that it will not be possible to continue current cancer treatment, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has asked prefectures to take measures to improve medical care...

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Asahi broke the news in Tokyo, Japan on Friday, July 25, 2025.
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