Etiology and mechanism of lung cancer: studies in Central and Eastern Europe, with emphasis on interaction between tobacco smoking, occupational exposures, and genetic susceptibility factors; project on lung cancer in European women (WELAS, http://welas.iarc.fr/) to investigate descriptive trends, survival, beliefs about tobacco and attributable fractions; study in Nepal focusing on local tobacco products and indoor air pollution ; coordination of an international consortium of molecular and genetic epidemiology studies of lung cancer (ILCCO, http://ilcco.iarc.fr/).
Etiology and mechanism of cancers of the upper aero-digestive tract: studies of cancers of the oral cavity, larynx and oesophagus in Western Europe (ARCAGE : http://arcage.iarc.fr/), Latin America, India and Central and Eastern Europe, with emphasis on tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking and other lifestyle factors, occupational exposures, papilloma virus infection and genetic susceptibility factors; coordination of an international consortium of molecular and genetic epidemiology studies of head and neck cancer (INHANCE, http://inhance.iarc.fr/).
Tobacco and cancer : Etiological studies on specific aspects of tobacco carcinogenicity, such as the risk entailed by use of smokeless tobacco, smoking of local products.
Alcohol and cancer: studying the composition of alcohol from different regions, Acetaldehyde DNA-adducts as biomarkers, high risk populations, burden of disease.
Cohort studies in Iran and India: large-scale prospective studies.
Second primary neoplasms: risk after specific first primary neoplasms based on an international collaboration of cancer registries.
ECNIS: (Environmental Cancer risk, Nutrition and Individual Susceptibility), a Network of Excellence in the 6th EU Framework Programme for Research and Development.
IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention, Tobacco Control:
Volume 11 Reversal of Risk after Quitting Smoking.
Volume 12 Methods for Evaluating Tobacco Control Policies.
Volume 13 Evaluating the effectiveness of smoke-free policies.
Volume 14 (planned) Effectiveness of Tax and Price Policies for Tobacco Control, within the EC-FP7 funded PPACTE project.
- Next Meeting: May 17-22, 2010 -.
