[Viewpoint] A proposed framework for monitoring and evaluating progress at the intersection of women, power, and cancer

The Lancet Commission on women, power, and cancer,1 hereafter referred to as the Commission, was created to address urgent questions at the intersection of social inequality, cancer risk and outcomes, and the status of women in society. Cancer is an increasingly important public health threat and economic challenge to all people worldwide, but has a disproportionate impact on the lives and livelihoods of women, which creates downstream impacts for society. The Commission applied an intersectional feminist lens2 to inform a nuanced, evidence-based, gendered approach to cancer risk and cancer control in response to this threat.