World Cancer Day Solidarity Challenge

UICC announces an exciting new initiative that will enable cyclists and sports lovers to join forces with UICC and play an active part in the global fight against cancer: the World Cancer Day Solidarity Challenge.
The discrimination that women suffer in the context of their health must be considered as form of violence perpetrated against them and must end.

We cannot talk about the need to create equal opportunities for cervical cancer screenings and vaccinations without talking about gender bias in the context of human rights.

The recipients of the 2020 Best CEO and World Cancer Day Spirit Awards were announced at a special community celebration held virtually today, Tuesday 24th November. And the winners are…
Antibiotic resistance is among the many challenges facing the ability of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to properly manage cancer patients

To mark World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, Mirfin Mpundu and Zipporah Ali share their views on the impact of AMR on cancer care outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa and why urgent action is required to address this threat. 
The pandemic is accelerating progress in the use of remote diagnostics, big data and artificial intelligence that is helping to bring quality care closer to patients

The second UICC Virtual Dialogue in the Cancer beyond COVID-19 series looked at the lessons learned during the pandemic that can help transform outdated systems into more efficient, patient-centred models of care.
Close up of a woman looking down at her smiling daughter

Today, Tuesday 17th November, WHO officially launched with UICC participation its Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer, the first time the world has committed to eliminating a cancer.
The significant and growing threat of antibiotic resistance is severely undermining the ability of health practitioners to treat cancer.

Marking World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, Manica Balasegaram explains why urgent action is required to address the threat that drug resistance poses to cancer care.
Law and legal frameworks are crucial to enabling collaboration, ensuring coordination, and providing protection against conflicts of interest or misuses of power

A new report from the McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer shows how countries in the Western Pacific are using law and legal frameworks to address non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Working together in teams, participants in this Project ECHO course will learn how to apply the Knowledge Summaries on Breast Cancer Control to their project and respective settings over a period of six months

UICC’s Project ECHO® for breast cancer control began this week with organisations from 20 LMICs across the world. Their projects cover a range of issues focused on improving breast cancer control and patient outcomes. 
A training dedicated to TNM staging was organised for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, where the cancer burden is increasing rapidly but has limited cancer incidence data. Patients at Istanbul University Oncology Institute.

Effective data collection on cancer is essential for better outcomes. UICC with IARC and FoCP organised a training course on TNM staging to support the development of cancer registries in the Eastern Mediterranean region.
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