People seated in an auditorium listening to a session on cancer control

UICC has now opened a call for sessions for the World Cancer Congress 2022. Proposals can be submitted until 30 November 2021.
Doctor advising a breast cancere patient on medicine.

Marking Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October, UICC looks at the achievements of its Breast Cancer Programme launched a year ago and showcases awareness campaigns by member organisations.
Older patient doing physical exercise with a healthworker

Marking the International Day of Older Persons this 1 October, UICC explores in a report and Virtual Dialogue some of the barriers to accessing care faced by older adults with cancer and how their specific needs can be addressed. 
Campaign poster for World Cancer Research Day 2021 with collage of doctors

Marking World Cancer Research Day, internationally renowned cancer experts discussed strategies to enable research results to benefit people living with cancer as quickly as possible.
Metastatic breast cancer projects map
Man smoking a cigarette

Tobacco industry claims that it is moving away from harmful smoke products and investing in health care are undermined by conflicts of interest and the manipulation of information and science.
KS Diagnosis Clinical Assesment
Focus: patient-centred cancer care at every age
UICC CEO Dr Cary Adams and Dr Rifat Atun, Professor of Global Health Systems at Harvard University, talk about the importance of investing in health systems and how research and knowledge must serve to translate evidence into policies and action.

In this Conversation, Cary Adams and Rifat Atun mark Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and highlight the connections that must be made between research and policy actions.
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