Media Centre - IARC News
2008
| World Cancer Report 2008 | |
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29/12/2008 - Edited by Peter Boyle and Bernard Levin  Download here |
| IARC Summer School in Cancer Epidemiology - 2009 |
10/12/2008 -15 June - 3 July 2009The Course Schedule and Application Forms are available here |
| Vitamin D and Cancer |
25/11/2008 -IARC Working Groups Reports - Volume 5Download here |
| ILCS - International Liver Cancer Study | |
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07/11/2008 - The International Liver Cancer Study (ILCS) is a network of clinicians, epidemiologists and molecular biologists coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) whose objectives are to improve the understanding of the geographic, pathological, virological and molecular diversity of the disease, as well as the identification of reliable biomarkers for risk assessment, early detection and monitoring of the disease. |
| Visit ILCS website at: http://ilcs.iarc.fr | |
| IARC Fellowships for Cancer Research |
| 20/11/2008 - See details |
| ILCS - International Liver Cancer Study | |
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07/11/2008 - The International Liver Cancer Study (ILCS) is a network of clinicians, epidemiologists and molecular biologists coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) whose objectives are to improve the understanding of the geographic, pathological, virological and molecular diversity of the disease, as well as the identification of reliable biomarkers for risk assessment, early detection and monitoring of the disease. |
| Visit ILCS website at: http://ilcs.iarc.fr | |
| Nature Genetics | |
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04/11/2008 - November 2008 - Vol 40 No 11 Published online: 02 November 2008; | doi:10.1038/ng.254 n Lung cancer susceptibility locus at 5p15.33James D McKay, Rayjean J Hung, Valerie Gaborieau, Paolo Boffetta, Amelie Chabrier et al.Full Text , IARC Press Release No. 190 |
| Nobel Prize shared by French and German scientists | |
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07/10/2008 - Two French scientists, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, recognised for their work in uncovering the AIDS virus, and a German virologist, who uncovered the papillomavirus that causes cervical cancer, were jointly awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine today, Monday 6 October, 2008. Read more |
| WHO Classification of Tumours | |
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19 /09/2008 -WHO Classification of Tumours of Haematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissues, Fourth EditionEdited by Swerdlow, S.H., Campo, E., Harris, N.L., Jaffe, E.S., Pileri, S.A., Stein, H., Thiele, J., Vardiman, J.WPublication date: September 2008 Read more |
| Lancet Oncology - Review | |
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01/07/2008 -Smokeless tobacco and cancerVol 9, Number 7, July 2008Paolo Boffetta, Stephen Hecht, Nigel Gray, Prakash Gupta and Kurt Straif Full Text |
| Lancet Oncology - Special Report: Policy | |
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01/07/2008 -Effectiveness of smoke-free policiesJohn P Pierce, María E León, on behalf of the IARC Handbook Volume 13 Working Group, IARC Secretariat.Full Text , IARC Press Release N° 189 |
| IARC Meetings |
01/07/2008 -INTEGRATIVE MOLECULAR CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGYAn IARC-EACR-AACR-ECNIS Symposium3-5 July 2008, Lyon, France Final programme available here |
| IARC Screening Group | |
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24/06/2008 -A digital manual for the early diagnosis of oral neoplasiaOral cancer is an important public health problem worldwide, though more particularly in the developing countries of south and south-east Asia. India contributes one-third of the global burden of oral cancer where it is the number one cause of death from cancer among men.Read more |