New in International Journal of Cancer - impact of #COVID19 pandemic on 3 areas of cancer registry operations: 1⃣staffing 2⃣financing 3⃣data collection TWO THIRDS of cancer registries surveyed reported a disruption in operations. GICR at IARC IARC onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ij…

What's the global prevalence of #BreastCancer? According to IARC "#BreastCancer has now overtaken lung cancer as the 🌍’s most-diagnosed cancer." In 2020, there were 2.3 million women diagnosed with breast cancer:  who.int/news-room/fact… World Health Organization (WHO) #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth

In a new video 📽️ to mark #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth, IARC scientist Dr Eileen Morgan presents an overview of the current global burden of #BreastCancer & some risk factors to avoid #alcohol #obesity #PhysicalActivity youtube.com/watch?v=aKXOK8…

Excess body fatness during early to mid-adulthood and survival from colorectal and breast cancer: a pooled analysis of five international cohort studies 👇 👏 Melina Arnold Hadrien Charvat Hwayoung NOH et al. IARC Funding WCRF International cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/early/…

IARC launches Cancer Over Time, a new subsite of Global Cancer Observatory (GCO) that enables interactive visualizations of trends in #cancer-specific incidence & mortality rates in 60 countries over the past 65 years iarc.who.int/news-events/la…

Proud of our most recent study showing international variation in oesophageal and gastric cancer survival including differences by histological subtype and stage at diagnosis (an ICBP SURVMARK-2 study) gut.bmj.com/content/early/… Global Cancer Observatory (GCO) IARC Gut Journal Cancer Research UK

The holidays shouldn’t be a time to recharge. They should be a time to celebrate. If work is exhausting people to the point that they’re using their time off to recover, you might have a burnout culture. A healthy organization doesn’t leave people drained in the first place.

Our latest article is now online in the European Journal of Cancer! We estimated the burden of the major subtypes of #livercancer and uncovered distinct patterns when looking at incidence in different parts of the world. Global Cancer Observatory (GCO) IARC 🔗sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Wishing you all a wonderful festive season and #HappyHolidays from the team behind the Global Cancer Observatory - the Cancer Surveillance Branch at the International Agency for Research on Cancer🎄

Just out in British Journal of Cancer: 5⃣ ways to improve international comparisons of #cancersurvival using data from #cancerregistries. Recommendations from #ICBP SURVMARK-2 study, collab between Karolinska Institutet Kreftregisteret Biostatistics: Uni of Leicester IARC School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences nature.com/articles/s4141…

Breast cancer is the most common cancer globally. Progress in reducing #breastcancer mortality varies widely between countries. Differences within world regions suggest disparities in cancer control programmes. #WorldCancerDay #CloseTheCareGap gco.iarc.fr/overtime/en/da…

Our study on pancreatic cancer survival variations by stage and age at diagnosis is now published in BJC. This cancer remains fatal and our study reinforces the need for breakthroughs in early diagnosis and treatment. go.nature.com/3IGuqBA

Skin cancers are the most common group of cancers in the🌏with 1 500 000+ cases estimated in 2020, including 325K cases of melanoma. Many are preventable! 500K+ cases of melanoma & ~100K melanoma deaths can be expected /year by 2040 if trends don’t change iarc.who.int/news-events/gl…

Our IARC new paper led Melina Arnold on #global #estimates of #Melanoma showed considerable burden in #highincome countries but deaths/cases #disporportionally high in #Asia #Africa #inequality in #cancercontrol @salvax99 Freddie Bray ja.ma/3j1Fu0N via JAMA Dermatology

WCRF Happy to have contributed to this work🤓 👏to M. Kohls Melina Arnold Veronica DAVILA-BATISTA, PhD Hadrien Charvat et al. IARC #NCMTeam #OpenAccess 👉 bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

#EWAC22 Day 6–Patients & survivors! IARC’s mission is #cancer research for cancer prevention. We also study survival & recurrence. For example, you can explore data & create visuals comparing survival in different countries over time on our SURVMARK-2 tool gco.iarc.fr/survival/survm…

IARC scientist Eileen Morgan & colleagues estimates the 🌍burden of oesophageal #cancer will ↗️ by 50+% from 2020 to 2040 to ~1 million cases/year, & details current & future landscape of #OesophagealCancer to aid in setting primary prevention priorities doi.org/10.1053/j.gast…

IARC researchers & partners give overview of global burden of #BreastCancer in 2020 & predictions up to 2040. New cases will increase by 40% to >3 million cases & breast #cancer deaths will increase 50% to 1 million deaths in 2040. New study in The Breast iarc.who.int/news-events/cu…

Out in Journal of Hepatology today - our assessment of the global burden of #livercancer and predictions to 2040. Really pleased to highlight this important and often underestimated cancer. Check out our #openaccess article for more info👇 🔗journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S0168-…

#GUTImage from the paper by Melina Arnold Valerie McCormack et al om "Population-based investigation of common and deviating patterns of gastric cancer and oesophageal cancer incidence across populations and time" via bit.ly/3MLXk85 #GastricCancer #OesophagealCancer #GOJ