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A new article by researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and partners describes how public health workers in Bangladesh leveraged electronic data systems to track the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cervical cancer screening programmes and to restart cancer screening services as rapidly as possible in less affected regions. The study was published in the journal Preventive Medicine, in a Special Issue titled “From Disruption to Recovery: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Cancer Screening”. View the article, the special issue, and the IARC news

The Lancet Oncology published a new editorial in the June 2021 issues with a high focus on the cervical cancer screening crisis within the COVID-19 pandemic: “It is unfortunate that the pandemic happened when the WHO call to eliminate cervical cancer was gaining strong momentum”, commented Dr Partha Basu.
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The main goal of this course is to increase health professionals’ and researchers’ knowledge and understanding of public health interventions in cancer prevention, which in turn will help them contribute to the development of an evidence-based national cancer control plan suitable for their own countries. The course provides a broad perspective on principles, concepts, issues, and practices of cancer prevention, early detection, and programme implementation. All the pre-recorded webinars covering cancer control overview, risk factors - prevention strategy, and screening and early diagnosis are available on a dedicated video channel. View the channel.

VCS Foundation’s Medical Director Associate Professor Julia Brotherton will lead implementation research with partners in two states of India, Tamil Nadu in Southern India and Mizoram in North Eastern India, and experts on cancer and disease prevention from the IARC early detection & prevention branch, and the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. This project will be funded through the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) for research to implement cervical cancer screening in hard-to-reach and vulnerable Indian communities.
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Dr Yelena Tarasenko, Professor at a Public Health School at Georgia Southern University, joined the early detection & prevention branch as a Visiting Scientist, and is involved in the CanCreen5 training project.

Dr Karen Canfell, Director, The Daffodil Centre and Professor & NHMRC Leadership Fellow, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney presented this webinar within the framework of the IARC Distinguished Speaker Series 2021.
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What are the consequences of COVID-19 for cancer screening? What challenges have been encountered by countries? What could be turned into an opportunity, and what lessons have been learned? Could the lessons learned help countries to “build back better”? The webinar addresses these questions and provides examples from low-income and high-income countries. Professor Joakim Dilner and Dr Partha Basu discussed about COVID-19 and cancer screening during this webinar chaired by Dr Iacopo Baussano. View the webinar.

To mark World Immunization Week (24–30 April), Dr Partha Basu of the Early Detection, Prevention, and Infections Branch at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) highlights the importance of vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) in preventing the development of cancer, particularly cervical cancer. In the video, Dr Basu describes two of the many research projects that IARC is involved in relating to cervical cancer prevention, HPV vaccination, and HPV-related cancers. View the video.

Dr Partha Basu, Deputy head, early detection & prevention branch at the International Agency for Research on Cancer participated to this webinar organized by the the Society of Gynecologic Oncology of Canada to discuss presenting Cervix cancer – projections of how/when we can eliminate cervix cancer. Learn more about the The Society of Gynecologic Oncology of Canada.

In collaboration with the Centre Régional de Coordination de Dépistage des Cancers d’Occitanie (CRCDC-Occitanie) and The “Université de Bretagne Occidentale”, The Early Detection, Prevention & Infections Branch/IARC is officially launching today the AppDate-You project to tackle the burden and inequalities in cervical cancer screening. The project aims to evaluate the impact of artificial intelligence-assisted decision-making to improve women’s knowledge and participation to cervical cancer screening in Occitanie Region-France. This project is funded by the French Institut National du Cancer (INCA).