[Correspondence] Inverse care law and inequity of access to patient-centric care

In 1971, Julian Tudor Hart wrote that “the availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need of the population served”.1 Amid extraordinary progress in precision therapy, a quieter crisis has emerged viz the loss of the human face of cancer care. The Lancet Oncology Commission from Gary Rodin and colleagues on the human crisis in cancer2…