Search Tag: IARC
2024 06 Feb
A recent report released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) ahead of World Cancer Day sheds light on the escalating burden of cancer worldwide. According to fresh projections, the number of new cancer cases in Europe is anticipated to rise by 22.5 percent over the next twenty years. Globally, there is an estimated 55 percent...Read more
2024 06 Feb
A recent report released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) ahead of World Cancer Day sheds light on the escalating burden of cancer worldwide. According to fresh projections, the number of new cancer cases in Europe is anticipated to rise by 22.5 percent over the next twenty years. Globally, there is an estimated 55 percent...Read more
2022 14 Jan
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as well as the U.S. Congress marks January as Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. The U.K also recognizes 17-23 January 2022 as Cervical Cancer Prevention Week. Over 14,000 U.S. women are diagnosed each year. Globally, it was estimated in 2018 that cervical cancer caused 311,000 deaths making...Read more
2016 05 Jan
Precision in medicine is a popular notion: precision to target an individual, precision to target a tumour, precision to target a molecule within a tumour. On occasion, this notion of precision no doubt evokes a crude analogy with images of the laser-guided missiles of war. As with modern warfare waged on any enemy, the war on cancer will use precision...Read more
2015 10 Jun
A major international study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine , shows that women aged 50-69 years who attend mammography screening decrease their risk of dying from breast cancer by 40 percent compared to women who are not screened. The latest findings were coordinated by the International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC), the...Read more
2013 24 Oct
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the dedicated cancer agency of the World Health Organisation, has in a recent statement classified outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic to humans. The IARC Monographs Programme gathered the world’s foremost experts in order to review the latest 1000 scientific papers...Read more