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Dr Partha Basu, Head of Screening Group, Early Detection & Prevention Section at the International Agency for Research on Cancer invites you to join this webinar organized by the Malabar Cancer Care Society, India, within the framework of breast cancer awareness month 2020. He will be delighted to discuss how to prevent breast cancer in India. Join the webinar (on Friday 23 October 2020 at 5.30 pm IST).

In August 2020, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution calling for elimination of cervical cancer and adopting a strategy to make it happen. On November 17, following the close of the 73rd World Health Assembly, World Health Organization will mark this historic announcement and officially launch the ambitious, inclusive global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer. Learn more about the launch of the Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer.

Beginning of the virtual training to improve participants' knowledge and skills in screening with visual inspection with acetic acid and treatment of precancerous lesions of the cervix within the framework of Care4Afrique project. This training is organized in collaboration with the CHU Mel de Cotonou, the Foundation Claudine Talon, the Foundation Lalla Salma and the IARC Screening group.

On International Day of rural women and breast cancer awareness month, take a look at this IARC Screening Group publication: Study of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Toward Risk Factors and Early Detection of Noncommunicable Diseases Among Rural Women in India published published in the Journal of Global Oncology and based on an on-going Indian study coordinated by the Screening Group and partners from GBH Memorial Cancer Hospital (Udaipur) and The Indo-American Cancer Association (IACA). View the publication and learn more about the International day of rural women.

This virtual conference organized by the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) will focus this year on quality and safety, implementation science in cardio-oncology and examine some global issues in cancer including changes in cancer epidemiology and their interface with global economic, environmental and political changes and their impact on cancer control. Dr Partha Basu, Head, Screening Group will be delighted to present the current practice for population-based mammography screening. View the COSA 2020 page

The CanScreen5 Train the Trainers African course, with participants from 17 African countries, aims to contribute to the creation of a dynamic global network of master trainers capable of training health care providers on cancer screening program monitoring, evaluation and quality improvement and also to contribute data to the CanScreen5 project. Dr Jean-Marie Dangou from WHO-AFRO was the first keynote speaker and presented the webinar: "Cancer Screening in Africa - Where are we now?"

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide, impacting 2.1 million women each year. Early detection through screening helps improve survival rates.
View the WHO Breast cancer page to learn more about the current WHO recommandations.

This webinar will showcase examples of global cancer research partnerships and collaborations from the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) perspective. Dr Partha Basu, Head, Screening Group will be delighted to present the role of collaborative research to identify effective and affordable technologies and inform global policies in cancer prevention.
View the NCI at London Global Cancer Week 2020 page

Dr Partha Basu, Head of Screening Group, Early Detection & Prevention Section at the International Agency for Research on Cancer invites you to join the virtual European Cancer Summit 2020 session on Prevention between 18 to 19 November 2020.
View the video.

Throughout October, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) will mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a series of posts, including tweets, interviews, and infographics. Stay tuned to the IARC website, www.iarc.fr, the IARC Twitter account, @IARCWHO, and the IARC YouTube channel, IARC WHO, during October to learn more about Breast cancer. Read the IARC news