Visitors and news

The report of the 6th European Roundtable Meeting to Discuss the Quality of Cancer Care, “Improvement of cancer care in low to middle income countries by transfer of knowledge” organized in June 2019 by the German Cancer Society (DKG) and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), Berlin, Germany is now available online.
View the report.

Dr Vitaly Smelov and Andre Carvalho participated in this course which is part of a joint programme funded by the European Union on prevention of non-communicable diseases, promotion of healthy lifestyle and support to modernization of the health system in Belarus (BELMED). It is a coordinated project between different UN organizations (UNDP, WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and IARC), in which IARC participates in the implementation of a national breast cancer screening program in Belarus. More detail about this training.

The Screening Group organized this course in collaboration with Ministry of Health (Morocco), the Fes Institut de Recherche sur le Cancer (ICR) and the Fondation Lalla Salma Prévention et Traitement des Cancers to train 20 participants from Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Morocco and Senegal. Dr Catherine Sauvaget and Dr Patricia Villain attended as a faculty members. Training course was a mixed of practical and theoretical sessions.

Dr Partha Basu participated in this meeting organised by WHO within the framework of the Accelerate Cervical Cancer Elimination Initiative Guideline Development Group (GDG) for “Update of WHO Screening and Treatment Recommendations For Cervical Pre-Cancer Lesions”.
More detail about this meeting.

The newspaper Le Matin reported the new IARC Screening Group initiative in collaboration with the Ministry of Health in Morocco, l'insititut de recherche sur le Cancer (IRC) and the Lalla Salma Foundation for Cancer Prevention and Research.
Read the article.

J-7 avant l'ouverture des classes virtuelles en ligne du CIRC sur la vaccination HPV pour les médecins généralistes de Lyon. Inscrivez-vous sur le site https://paprica-rhone.fr et informez-vous sur le projet PAPRICA.

The BMJ’s recent news article on how high coverage of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine could “eradicate” cervical cancer has created some confusion. Colleagues from IARC and WHO in this response like to clarify the difference between elimination and eradication and clear any doubts raised by the use of incorrect terminology.
Read the letter response.

The Screening Group organized a training course in diagnostic and treatment of breast cancer in collaboration with Institut National D’Oncologie Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah (INO) and Fondation Lalla Salma Prévention et Traitement des Cancers to train the medical providers involved in the Care4Afrique project in Bénin, Côte d'Ivoire and Sénégal. Dr Farida Selmouni attended as a faculty members. Course was a mixed of practical and theoretical sessions about diagnosis (radiology and pathology) and treatment.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is pleased to announce the meeting for the IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention Volume 18: Cervical Cancer Screening, which will take place at IARC in Lyon, France, on 23–30 June 2020.
More detail about the call for data, call for experts and request for observational status.

Dr Sylla Malvi worked with the Screening Group on the development of training modules about basics of cervical cytology for the IFCPC/IARC course on colposcopy and cervical cancer prevention available online soon.