Open licences for publicly funded cancer guidelines
Guidelines paid for with public or charitable money would be published under an open licence so any hospital system, app or country can build them in without permission or fees.
Many guidelines are copyrighted and licensed commercially, which blocks their embedding in software and their adaptation in low-resource settings. The proposal makes open licensing (CC-BY or similar) a condition of public and charitable funding for guideline development, with a transition fund for bodies that depend on licence income. WHO and some national bodies already publish openly; NCCN and others do not.
- Knowledge reaches practice too slowly · Knowledge diffusion is slow: it takes years for a proven result to change what most patients receive, and no one can keep up with the literature.
- Most of the world has almost no cancer care · Seven in ten cancer deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries, where radiotherapy, pathology, surgery and drugs are scarce.
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