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Official X account of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, @WHO's cancer research agency. Support our research: https://t.co/kXeUOzGidx
Lyon, France
Joined April 2016
🎉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
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These are the 25 most cited papers published in the twenty-first century https://t.co/U6pS99Xbwn
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Dr Smita Joshi of Prayas, a non-profit organization based in Pune, #India, presents the results of IARC's latest study on the most effective ways of using #HPV testing to prevent #CervicalCancer mong women living with #HIV. #WorldAIDSDay2025
https://t.co/DppjsZXYDq
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.@IARC_Dir Dr Elisabete Weiderpass presented the Latin America & the Caribbean Code Against #Cancer at the @fiocruz Center for Strategic Studies’ Seminar “Cancer Control in the 21st Century". She was joined by Dr Alexandre Padilha, MoH of 🇧🇷. Read the code https://t.co/KQ1u6NVG2J
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IARC scientists provided the 1st global assessment of #cancer attributable to #HIV. 81300 cases of cancer were due to HIV in 2022. 70% of these occurred in #Africa. Of these, +40% were cases of #CervicalCancer & 35% were Kaposi sarcoma. #WorldAIDSDay
https://t.co/lRdvjeayyo
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#LungCancerAwarenessMonth IARC scientists research the causes of #LungCancer, early detection, & factors affecting survival. In this📺, Dr @mahdi_iarc Sheikh describes his work on how quitting smoking improves outcomes, even for patients already diagnosed. https://t.co/ZpnbNRq6bS
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.@IARC_Dir Dr Elisabete Weiderpass spoke at the @fiocruz Center for Strategic Studies’ Seminar “Cancer Control in the 21st Century: Global Challenges & Local Solutions” on “Cancer Control: Lessons Learned, Global Challenges & Challenges in 🇧🇷” for #DiaNacionalDeCombateAoCancer.
📢 *Coming soon!* 📍The Seminar ‘Cancer Control in the 21st Century – global challenges and local solutions’, by Fiocruz’s Center for Strategic Studies! 💬📲 The event will be held in person and streamed online. 👇Day 1 https://t.co/GmWO2oom0I 👇Day 2 https://t.co/ra2wDIJNEH
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Nous #recrutons un(e) #Analyste de systèmes #Linux (G5) pour rejoindre notre équipe informatique. Rejoignez une organisation internationale dédiée à la recherche sur le #cancer et soutenez nos infrastructures, essentielles à la science. Postuler: https://t.co/f6xBW1gvRr
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CanScreen5, an IARC flagship programme, invites you to a special session: 📅 4 Dec 🕓 16h CET 🎯 Progress of African countries towards #CervicalCancer elimination goals ✅ Register: https://t.co/jFOAQCmtwH Let's work together for a 🗺️free from cervical #cancer!
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لقد حددنا سابقا أنّ تأثير دخان الأرجيلة على الحمض النووي يختلف تماماً عن تأثيردخان السجائر 🚬. نهدف الآن إلى وضع خريطة للعلامات البيولوجية اللاجينية المتعلقة بتدخين الأرجيلة والسجائر 🚬 عبر مراحل الحياة المختلفة (ما قبل الولادة و ما بعد البلوغ) ، ودراسة تداعياتها.
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#MoisSansTabac Nous avons montré que la fumée de narguilé impacte notre épigénome différemment de la cigarette 🚬. Maintenant, nous allons cartographier les biomarqueurs épigénétiques du narguilé et de la cigarette à différents stades de vie, et explorer leurs implications.
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#LungCancerAwarenessMonth We demonstrated the impact of waterpipe smoke is quite different than cigarette🚬 smoke on our epigenome. Now, we want to map epigenetic biomarkers of waterpipe & 🚬 smoking across critical stages of early & adult life, & investigate their implications.
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Excited for the #IARC60 Conference? Here's your chance to be part of the action! Accepting abstract on: Discovery & innovation for #cancer prevention Translating research into public health action Science-policy interface for 🌎change before 12 Jan 2025! https://t.co/JMSWmMZ7UI
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🆕IARC study finds major #cancer care delays in #Nepal🇳🇵: Urgent need to speed up early detection, diagnosis, & treatment. Results of DElays in CAncer care in Nepal (DECAN), assessing delays for breast, lung, cervical, stomach, colorectal, & oral cancers. https://t.co/Uf883IPHGK
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Video explainer: Dr Lamia Tallaa on the evidence the Working Group considered when reaching their conclusion.
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Video explainer: Dr Roland Wedekind on the three agents that were evaluated, who is exposed, and how these exposures occur. https://t.co/tnXDAIUYzj
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Video explainer: Dr Mary Schubauer-Berigan on the results of the evaluations of atrazine, alachlor, and vinclozolin. https://t.co/PTNvSB6pLe
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The results of the IARC Monographs📙 evaluation of 3 pesticides – the herbicides atrazine & alachlor & the fungicide vinclozolin – have now been published in @TheLancetOncol. The summary article presents the conclusions of IARC Monographs Meeting 140. https://t.co/IrNZCuf8v1
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