Visitors and news

Dr Partha Basu visited Saudi Arabia to evaluate the new cancer screening model included in the basic benefits package at primary health centre level implemented by the ministry of health.

Mr Eric Lucas, Ms Sylvaine Barbier in collaboration with the IARC IT group presented an IARC Science Café to introduce the REDCap platform to IARC staff. REDCap is a powerful web-based research data collection system that the Screening Group piloted and started to use to manage data from clinical field projects within the Section of Early Detection and Prevention. The objective of this presentation was to promote this new tool within the Agency.

Dr Parham is a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and the University of Zambia. With his team, Dr Parham was among the first to provide cervical cancer screening and treatment services on a broad scale to HIV-positive women in sub-Saharan Africa. Watch Video.

Dr Andre Carvalho participated in this meeting to present the progress of CanScreen5 platform.

Dr Partha Basu participated in the Research Working Group in the context of the WHO Global Cervical Cancer Elimination Initiative.

Dr Groesbeck Parham visited the Screening Group to discuss the ongoing United States National Cancer Institute-funded project “Randomized controlled trial of the Liger Thermal Coagulator versus cryosurgery and versus large loop excision of the transformation zone (LLETZ) to prevent cervical neoplasia in VIA-positive women in low- and middle-income countries”.

Dr Groesbeck Parham from the Centre for Infectious Disease Research, University of Zambia, Lusaka, principal investigator of the United States National Cancer Institute project in Zambia, presented on the occasion of World Cancer Day 2019 a lecture about the progress achieved in cervical cancer screening in Zambia. Watch Video.

On World Cancer Day 2019, Dr Elisabete Weiderpass, Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), reiterated IARC’s commitment to fighting cervical cancer and fully endorsed the position of the World Health Organization (WHO) on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, confirming that HPV vaccination is safe, efficacious, and critical in the fight against cervical cancer.
Read IARC Press Release 264.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) marks World Cancer Day 2019 with a full package of materials about cervical cancer. Explore the IARC World Cancer Day webpage to see videos, interviews, and a showcase of some of IARC’s research projects related to cervical cancer.
Visit the IARC World Cancer Day webpage.

Dr Partha Basu delivered a keynote lecture about cervical cancer elimination.