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‘Global Oncology’ has become an increasingly prevalent term in recent years. Arising from a renewed application of the language and theories of globalisation, which were so influential to HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases in the 1990s and early 2000s, it is a term that means different things to different people.1 However, to its main exponents, it is generally understood as a set of interventions that aim to ‘close the divide’ in ‘cancer access and outcomes’ by addressing ‘disparities and differences in cancer prevention, care, research, education and the disease’s social and human impact around the world’.2 3