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🎉IARC is the leading source of #cancer data for action, & @Nature just proved it! Not 1⃣but 2⃣ IARC papers📰are among the top🔟most-cited papers of the new millennium - one of them is even the most recently published🗓️paper to make the top ten! #CancerResearchThatMatters #IARC60
These are the 25 most cited papers published in the twenty-first century go.nature.com/4cIcWob
Have you been keeping up with our 60 Days, 60 Jobs, 60 Faces videos celebrating 60 Years of IARC⁉️ Since July 1st, we've been publishing a new face😀, a new job🧑⚕️, and a new story📽️ each day! Meet the people driving cancer research forward at IARC! #IARC60 instagram.com/iarc_circ60/re…
“IARC scientists work closely with @WHO & international partners to study links between #hepatitis B, C, & D & various #cancer types—especially hepatocellular carcinoma #HCC, the most common type of #LiverCancer.” @IARC_Dir speaks at Egypt’s celebration of #HepC Elimination
⚕️In April 2025, an #imPACT review team of experts from @IAEAorg, @WHO and @IARCWHO visited hospitals and health-related facilities to assess Chile’s national cancer control capacities. ➡️Read more: bit.ly/4kWMdqD
IARC Researchers & partners examine the possible co-benefits of climate change mitigation & reduction of greenhouse gas emissions on primary #cancer prevention in #Europe in a 🆕 Commentary published in @JNCI_Now iarc.who.int/news-events/cl…
🆕IARC website presents the Virtual RealiTy & mUsic in the Oncology SEtting (VRtuose) study, an IARC collab with @CLCCLeonBerard. The 🥅? To see if implementing VR devices in chemotherapy units could improve quality of life of patients with #BreastCancer. iarc.who.int/news-events/ia…
📣CALL FOR EXPERTS📣 As part of @EU_Commission Initiative on Cervical #Cancer & Europe’s Beating #CancerPlan, IARC & @EU_ScienceHub need experts to aid dev of QA for #CervicalCancer care services from below profiles See website to apply Apply by 15 Sep '25 …r-screening-and-care.jrc.ec.europa.eu/en/ec-cvc/open…
Join us tomorrow, 3pm CEST, for the #IARC-ESMO - European Society for Medical Oncology webinar on #Nutrition, #Diet & #Cancer. 👉iarc.zoom.us/webinar/regist… AND 👨🎓visit the IARC-@myESMO learning & capacity-building initiative platform on cancer prevention: whoacademy.org/partners/IARC/…
🚨 We're hiring 3 #postdocs at @IARCWHO in Lyon, France! Join us to work with @hilaryarobbins @Mattias31 @XiaoshuangF & me on #cancer #epidemiology & #prevention. 🧠 Background in epi/biostats 📍 Lyon, France 🔗 Details: iarc.who.int/wp-content/upl… #epitwitter #CancerResearch
🔬 New study led by IARC reveals why colorectal cancer is rising in young adults: key DNA mutations linked to gut bacteria. 🎥 Watch Dr Paul Brennan explain the findings. 👉 iarc.who.int/news-events/an… #CancerResearch #ColorectalCancer #IARC #YoungAdults #EUCanScreen
Dr Joachim Schuz from @IARCWHO delivering the first keynote 'Environmental risk factors & their related cancer burden' on day 3 of #SEGH2025
🧐Check out the Highly Cited Editor’s Choice #Review "Current Status and Future Prospects for #Esophageal #Cancer?" Citation: 137✅ Views: 12881✅ 📎Find out more here: mdpi.com/2072-6694/15/3… 👥by Mahdi Sheikh et al. @IARCWHO
IARC researchers & partners investigating diet find higher adherence to plant-based diets – higher intakes of fruits🍊, vegetables🥦, nuts🌰, legumes🫛, whole grains🌾, vegetable oils🫒, & coffee/tea☕️ – associated with 11% reduction in #BreastCancer risk. iarc.who.int/news-events/pl…
IARC & partners launch study as part of Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project #HYPREP in #Ogoniland, #Nigeria to: Investigate health impacts of #hydrocarbon pollution on ppl of Ogoniland Build local health capacity Provide public health recommendations iarc.who.int/news-events/ia…
HYPREP has commissioned the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO) to carry out a three-year human biomonitoring study in Ogoniland, as recommended by the UNEP Report, to assess the health impacts of long term exposure to hydrocarbon pollution. Prof. Nenibarini
What are the differences & similarities between study results on #diet, #bodyweight & #cancer in adults &in children? Ask our experts at the 12th #IARC-ESMO webinar. 📅Tue 22 July, 3pm CEST. Register here: iarc.zoom.us/webinar/regist… @myESMO
The CanScreen5 initiative has published🆕screening data from an additional 17 francophone countries in #Africa. 🇩🇿🇧🇯🇧🇫🇧🇮🇨🇲🇹🇩🇰🇲🇨🇬🇨🇮🇬🇦🇬🇳🇲🇬🇲🇱🇲🇦🇳🇪🇸🇳🇹🇬 Information on policies, protocols, & organization of #cancer #screening programmes also now available! iarc.who.int/news-events/pu…
IARC & partners applied untargeted metabolomics to identify serum metabolites associated with #BreastCancer in black urban women in Soweto, #SouthAfrica. Found high levels of cortisol, kynurenine, & octenoylcarnitine associated with risk of breast #cancer iarc.who.int/news-events/as…
Congratulations to Dr @AlhomoudSamar, Chair of the IARC Ethics Committee & close collaborator of the Agency, on being selected as a Saudi Pioneer, one of the 100 most influential Saudi women in their sectors. manhom.com/en/profiles/sa…
How do #nutrition & #diet impact #CancerRisk & outcomes: from childhood to adulthood? Find out at the next @IARCWHO - ESMO webinar: “Nutrition, diet & cancer” 🗓️ 22 July 2025, 15:00–16:30 CEST 🔗 Register: ow.ly/EgT450Wnyvz #CancerPrevention #Oncology
15.6 million people born between 2008 and 2017 globally are expected to develop gastric cancer sometime in their life, suggests a study published in @NatureMedicine. go.nature.com/4kvR9Cz