Guide
04 Mar 2025
Breast self-examination (BSE) is a routine examination that should be carried out at the same time each month to physically check for any lumps or other changes. It entails two important components, i.e. looking and feeling. With this method, women s...
Publication
07 Nov 2024
Background Cancer is the third leading cause of death in Kenya. Breast cancer is responsible for 3100 deaths annually. Quantifying the economic and social impacts of breast cancer supports inclusion of cancer care within Kenya's universal healthca...
Dialogue
25 Oct 2024
This episode features a discussion with Dr Ophira Ginsburg and Dr Carinna Hockham about the Lancet Commission on Women and Cancer, currently underway. The Commission is exploring the relationship between gender, power and cancer, and is taking an int...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Aug 2023
Key facts Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, accounting for the highest mortality rates among both men and women. Smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer, responsible for approximately 85% of all cases....
Database
10 May 2023
The Cancer Screening in Five Continents (CanScreen5) project of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) aims to collect information on the characteristics and performance of cancer screening programmes across the globe in a harmonized...
Guide
04 Mar 2023
Quick reference chart for clinical breast examination by IARC
Database
04 Mar 2023
The Atlas of Breast Cancer Early Detection is a step-by-step guide to the procedure of CBE and its interpretation, diagnostic mammography, diagnostic breast ultrasound, image-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC), and core biopsy of...
Report
18 Nov 2022
WHO’s Global oral health status report (GOHSR) provides the first-ever comprehensive picture of oral disease burden and highlights challenges and opportunities to accelerate progress towards universal coverage for oral health. This includes introdu...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
04 Mar 2022
Global factsheet on breast cancer | GLOBOCAN 2022Country factsheets are available here: https://gco.iarc.fr/today/en/fact-sheets-populations#countries
Report
06 Feb 2020
The report focuses on prevention and offers the most comprehensive overview of relevant research avaliable to date, ranging from descriptive etiology, cellular and molecular biology, toxicology and pathology through to behavioural and social sciences...
Publication
15 Aug 2002
The search for the links between diet, nutritional and metabolic factors and cancer aetiology is an area of research which, over the past two decades, has attracted increasing attention both from a scientific and a public health point of view. In thi...
