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Hideyuki Akaza, Norie Kawahara, Cross-boundary Cancer Studies at the University of Tokyo: Surviving Cancer in Asia: Introduction, Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology, Volume 44, Issue suppl_1, February 2014, Pages i1–i2, https://doi.org/10.1093/jjco/hyt231
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INTRODUCTION
This collection of essays represents a record of the lectures given at a year-long series of seminars held at the University of Tokyo entitled ‘Surviving Cancer in Asia: Advanced Lectures in Area Studies II’. This seminar series was held under the auspices of the University-wide Graduate Education Program ‘Japan-Asian Studies’.
Cancer is known as a disease of civilization, and as living standards and life expectancy rise in the countries of Asia, so too are the risk factors for cancer rapidly increasing and pervading the day-to-day lives of the people of Asia. Today, advances in medical research are helping to identify and understand the mechanisms that changes in living standards and lifestyles and are having on all age groups and generations. However, medical research provides only one perspective on the factors that are affecting the transformation of the disease structure. To fully understand and overcome the challenges presented by the changes to our societies, it is essential to amass academic knowledge from a broad range of specialist perspectives, which take into account non-medical aspects such as social structure and historical background.
