IARC 50th Anniversary Conference "Global Cancer: Occurrence, Causes, and Avenues to Prevention"
7–10 June 2016 Centre de Congrès, Lyon, France
Helen Zorbas
Opening Ceremony
From left to right: Thierry Philip, Thierry Breton, Helen Zorbas and Christopher P. Wild
Opening Ceremony
From right to left: Thierry Breton, Christopher P. Wild, Helen Zorbas and Thierry Philip
Opening Ceremony
From left to right: Thierry Breton, Christopher P. Wild, Helen Zorbas and Thierry Philip
Opening Ceremony
From right to left on stage: Christopher P. Wild and Helen Zorbas
Presentation Title: "IARC: 50 years of cancer research for cancer prevention"
Douglas Lowy
Presentation Title: "The potential of cost-effective precision medicine in the low- and middle-income countries"
From left to right on stage: Douglas Lowy, Christopher P. Wild and Helen Zorbas
Opening Ceremony
From right to left: Freddie Bray, Silvia Franceschi and Tezer Kutluk
Presentation Title: "The global burden of cancer"
From left to right: Freddie Bray, Silvia Franceschi and Tezer Kutluk
Presentation Title: "The global burden of cancer"
From left to right: Soo Khee Chee, Mary Gospodarowicz and Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan
Panel Debate 1: "Cancer research investment should shift from late-stage treatment to early-stage detection"
From right to left: Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, Mary Gospodarowicz and Soo Khee Chee
Panel Debate 1: "Cancer research investment should shift from late-stage treatment to early-stage detection"
From right to left on stage: Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, Mary Gospodarowicz and Soo Khee Chee
Panel Debate 1: "Cancer research investment should shift from late-stage treatment to early-stage detection"
From right to left: Mary Gospodarowicz, Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan and Soo Khee Chee
Panel Debate 1: "Cancer research investment should shift from late-stage treatment to early-stage detection"
Audience for the panel debate “Cancer research investment should shift from late-stage treatment to early-stage detection”
Panel Debate 1: "Cancer research investment should shift from late-stage treatment to early-stage detection"
Soo Kee Chee
Panel Debate 1: "Cancer research investment should shift from late-stage treatment to early-stage detection"
Richard Peto
Panel Debate 1: "Cancer research investment should shift from late-stage treatment to early-stage detection"
From left to right on stage: Soo Khee Chee, Mary Gospodarowicz and Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan
Panel Debate 1: "Cancer research investment should shift from late-stage treatment to early-stage detection"
Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan
Panel Debate 1: "Cancer research investment should shift from late-stage treatment to early-stage detection"
Richard Peto and Jack Siemiatycki
Parallel session “Challenges in primary prevention”
Parallel Session: "Challenges in primary prevention"
Adèle Green
Parallel Session: "Challenges in primary prevention"
Adèle Green speaking in the parallel session “Challenges in primary prevention”
Parallel Session: "Challenges in primary prevention"
Paolo Vineis
Parallel Session: "Systems perspectives of the exposome"
From left to right: Freddie Bray, Roberto Zanetti and Les Mery
Parallel Session: "Global burden of cancer and cancer registries"
From left to right: Freddie Bray, Roberto Zanetti and Salvatore Vaccarella
Parallel Session: "Global burden of cancer and cancer registries"
From left to right: Freddie Bray and Roberto Zanetti
Parallel Session: "Global burden of cancer and cancer registries"
From left to right: Les Mery and Max Parkin
You-Lin Qiao
Parallel Session: "Screening and early detection"
You-Lin Qiao
Parallel Session: "Screening and early detection"
Sarah Lewis
Parallel Session: "Mechanisms in carcinogen evaluation"
Sarah Lewis
Parallel Session: “Mechanisms in carcinogen evaluation”
From left to right: Christopher P. Wild, Elizabeth Blackburn and Frédéric Biemar
The American Association for Cancer Research Lecture: "Telomeres, biology and cancer"
From left to right: Frédéric Biemar, Elizabeth Blackburn and Christopher P. Wild
The American Association for Cancer Research Lecture: "Telomeres, biology and cancer"
From left to right: Elizabeth Blackburn (Recipient of 2016 IARC Medal of Honour ) and Christopher P. Wild
From right to left: Christopher P. Wild, Elizabeth Blackburn (Recipient of 2016 IARC Medal of Honour ) and Frédéric Biemar
David Hunter
Presentation Title: "Cancer, NCDs and global health"
From right to left: David Hunter, Christopher P. Wild and Xishan Hao
Preparation for a plenary session in the Amphithéâtre 3000
From right to left: Stephen Chanock, Joachim Schüz and Gilbert Lenoir
Stephen Chanock
Presentation Title: "Germline mutations"
From left to right: Gilbert Lenoir, Joachim Schüz and Stephen Chanock
Stephen Chanock
Presentation Title: "Germline mutations"
From left to right: Gilbert Lenoir, Joachim Schüz and Valerie Beral
Valerie Beral
Presentation Title: "The impact of tobacco, alcohol and hormones on women’s cancers"
Nubia Muñoz
From left to right: Nubia Muñoz, Lynette Denny (Recipient of 2016 IARC Medal of Honour) and Christopher P. Wild
Lynette Denny
Presentation Title: "Screening and early detection of cervical cancer in Africa"
Hitoshi Nakagama
Parallel Session: "DNA damage, repair and mutagenesis"
Hitoshi Nakagama
Parallel Session: "DNA damage, repair and mutagenesis"
Isabelle Soerjomataram and Max Parkin
Parallel Session: “Attributable risks”
Parallel session “Attributable risks”
From right to left: Michael Leitzmann, Christine Friedenreich and Marc Gunter
Parallel Session: "Nutrition, obesity and exercise"
On stage in the Amphithéâtre 3000, from left to right: Marc Gunter and Christine Friedenreich
Parallel Session: "Nutrition, obesity and exercise"
Armando Peruga
Panel Debate 2: "E-cigarettes represent a barrier to effective tobacco control"
Jean-François Etter
Panel Debate 2: "E-cigarettes represent a barrier to effective tobacco control"
Jean-François Etter on stage for the panel debate “E-cigarettes represent a barrier to effective tobacco control”
Panel Debate 2: "E-cigarettes represent a barrier to effective tobacco control"
From left to right: Jean-François Etter, Rodolfo Saracci and Armando Peruga
Panel Debate 2: "E-cigarettes represent a barrier to effective tobacco control"
The poster area during a lunch break
In the Amphithéâtre 3000
Parallel session “Genetics and (epi)genomics”
David Goldgar
Presentation Title: "The value of large international consortia in characterizing genetic susceptibility to breast cancer"
Parallel session “Infection control to prevent cancer”
From right to left on stage: Jack Siemiatycki and Dana Loomis
Presentation Title: "Occupation and cancer"
From left to right: Jack Siemiatycki and Dana Loomis
Parallel Session: "Occupation"
Akram Ghantous
Parallel Session: "Genetics and (epi)genomics"
Shunichi Yamashita
Parallel Session: "Radiation"
From right to left: Shunichi Yamashita and Ausrele Kesminiene
Parallel Session: "Radiation"
Roland Eils
Parallel Session: "Bioinformatics"
Roland Eils
Parallel Session: “Bioinformatics”
Michael Marmot
Presentation Title: "Reducing inequalities in risk"
From right to left: Michael Marmot, Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan and Vincent Cogliano
Presentation Title: "Reducing inequalities in risk"
Michael Marmot
Presentation Title: "Reducing inequalities in risk"
Michael Marmot
Presentation Title: "Reducing inequalities in risk"
From right to left: Graham Colditz, Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan and Vincent Cogliano
Presentation Title: "Implementing strategies to prevent cancer"
From left to right: Vincent Cogliano, Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan and Graham Colditz
Jazz Concert in the Amphithéâtre 3000
Musicians of the Conservatoire de Lyon
Lynette Denny (right) speaks to participants in the IARC "50 for 50" initiative
Lynette Denny
Recipient of 2016 IARC Medal of Honour
Walter Willett
Presentation Title: "Diet, weight control and energy balance in cancer"
From left to right: Marc Gunter, Giota Mitrou and Walter Willett
From right to left: Bernard W. Stewart and Rolando Herrero
George Davey Smith
Presentation Title: "Causality and chance in the origins of cancer"
From right to left: George Davey Smith, Bernard W. Stewart and Rolando Herrero
From left to right: Rolando Herrero, Bernard W. Stewart and George Davey Smith
Flora van Leeuwen
Presentation Title: "Risk factors for second cancers"
Mauricio Maza
Parallel Session “Implementation research”
Demetrius Albanes
Parallel Session: “Metabolomics and biomarkers”
Demetrius Albanes
Parallel Session: “Metabolomics and biomarkers”
Augustin Scalbert (left) and Nathaniel Rothman (right)
Parallel Session: “Metabolomics and biomarkers”
Posters
Epidemiology posters
Poster area
Panel Debate 3: “Screening for lung cancer should be implemented now”
From right to left: Sam Hanash, John Field and Harry J. de Koning
Panel Debate 3: "Screening for lung cancer should be implemented now"
Panel debate 3: “Screening for lung cancer should be implemented now”
From right to left: John Field, Sam Hanash and Harry J. de Koning
Panel debate 3: “Screening for lung cancer should be implemented now”
From right to left: Harry J. de Koning, John Field and Sam Hanash
Panel debate 3: “Screening for lung cancer should be implemented now”
Kurt Straif
Panel debate 3: “Screening for lung cancer should be implemented now”
From left to right: Harry J. de Koning, Sam Hanash and John Field
Panel debate 3: “Screening for lung cancer should be implemented now”
Lunch break
Proffered papers in the Amphithéâtre 3000
From right to left: Ausrele Kesminiene, David Forman and Elisabete Weiderpass
From left to right: Paul Kleihues, Christopher P. Wild and Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli
Presentation Title: "Consortia, big data and the future of population research"
Richard Peto
Presentation Title: “Successes in understanding the causes of cancer”
From right to left: Richard Peto, Christopher P. Wild and Paul Kleihues
Christopher P. Wild (right) and David Forman (left)
Closing of the conference
David Forman (left) and Christopher P. Wild (right)
Closing of the conference
All photographs featured in this gallery were taken by the IARC Photographer, Roland Dray.
Video presentations. Opening Ceremony of IARC 50th anniversary conference
Christopher P. Wild
HRH Princess Dina Mired
Douglas Lowy
All videos featured were produced by the IARC Photographer, Roland Dray.
Video interviews from IARC 50th anniversary conference
As part of its series of highlights from international oncology meetings, ecancer.tv features video interviews with participants at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) 50th anniversary conference, held in Lyon on 7–10 June 2016.
