Foluke Sarimiye at COGC 2026: From Equality to Equity in Community Cancer Care
Consultant Oncologist Foluke Sarimiye discussed the growing gap between advanced cancer research and patient access at the Community Oncology Global Congress. She argued that community oncology is essential for bridging this divide by integrating specialized care into local healthcare systems.
Why it matters
It highlights the critical global health challenge of ensuring that rapid scientific breakthroughs in oncology actually reach patients in underserved or local communities.
At the Community Oncology Global Congress ( COGC 2026 ), organized by OncoDaily, Foluke Sarimiye , Consultant Radiation and Clinical Oncologist at University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria, focused on a central challenge in modern cancer care: oncology is advancing rapidly, but access to those advances is not keeping pace.
The future of oncology is often measured by how sophisticated treatment becomes. But a harder question sits beneath that progress: what happens when patients cannot reach it?
The presentation used that tension to frame community oncology not as care outside the cancer center, but as the bridge between scientific advances and the people they are meant to serve.
“When we speak about the future of oncology , we often speak about:
But there is another equally important question we need to ask: how do we ensure that these advances actually reach the people who need them?
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