A group of hands holding yellow flowers that symbolise the Canadian Cancer Society

Andrea Seale, CEO of the Canadian Cancer Society, reveals the impact COVID-19 has had on Canada’s healthcare system and ways it can be built back better and fairer.
Kirsty Brown, diagnosed with cervical cancer at age 26, is now cancer-free and advocating for girls to be vaccinated against HPV. Image from the film Conquering Cancer, which is being made available for free in LMICs for World Cancer Day to raise awareness about cervical cancer prevention.

To celebrate the 2022 World Cancer Day campaign theme of “close the care gap”, the film Conquering Cancer will be made available for free to organisations in low- and middle-income countries.
Doctor operating on a patient

Essential instruments for reducing a country’s cancer burden, national cancer control plans often do not include vulnerable populations and suffer from a lack of implementation. The ICCP-ECHO programme offers LMICs a way forward.
Princess Dina Mired, UICC President (2018-2020) with cancer advocates and Dr Tedros, DG of WHO, and H.E. Margaret Kenyatta, First Lady of Kenya, at Walk the Talk, Geneva, 2019. Photo by Thomas Omondi.

For the first time in history, an end is in sight – but vaccines for the HPV virus play a critical role. Opinion article by UICC's Immediate Past President, HRH Princess Dina Mired of Jordan, in The Telegraph.
C_Can_Funcancer patients and volunteers convening in Cali, Colombia in November 2019-Santiago Esteban

UICC is thrilled to learn that Arequipa in Peru and Nairobi in Kenya will now benefit from the support of C/Can in developing innovative, sustainable and equitable quality cancer care.
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