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Connecting, mobilizing, supporting: 08 Annual Report now available |
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is with great pleasure that we present to you a copy of the UICC annual report
for 2008. In December 2008, the UICC unveiled a new mission statement “to
connect, mobilize and support cancer organizations and individuals with
knowledge and skills to be effective”. It is with this mission in mind that we
bring you our report of the activities of the UICC over the last year.
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NEW Ask the Expert - Legislation and Campaigns to Promote Healthy Lifestyles |
 UICC Community's Ask the Expert continues this month with Target 3 of the
World Cancer Declaration and its call to drastically
reduce tobacco consumption, obesity and alcohol intake. The target's focus on promoting
healthy lifestyles to help prevent cancer is also directly related to UICC's
World Cancer Campaigns for 2008 and 2009.
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Seventh Edition of TNM - Coming soon |
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August- the International Association for
the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) has recently published the first major revision of the
TNM staging system for lung and pleural tumours since 1987. TNM is the globally
accepted method of describing the anatomical extent of cancer.
The
new system is part of the seventh edition of the International Union Against
Cancer (UICC) Classification of Malignant Tumours that will be published at the end of this year. The IASLC released the lung and pleural tumour guidelines on
August 3 at the 13th World Conference on Lung Cancer.
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Spreading the World Cancer Campaign message from the mountain-tops! |
 Cancer advocate Brosie
McCann (Australia) has completed his 5-day ascent up Africa’s tallest
peak, Mount Kilimanjaro as a representative of the International Union
Against Cancer (UICC) to raise awareness of the 2009 World Cancer
Campaign “I love my healthy active childhood”. He joined two
time cancer survivor and expert mountaineer Sean Swarner (United
States) on the expedition, and reached the summit at 5,895
meters above sea level on 1 August. During the trek Brosie wrote a daily blog which can be read online here www.worldcancercampaign.org/kiliblog.
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New report confirms sunbed cancer danger |
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 Recently, the International Agency for Research on Cancer
(IARC) upgraded their assessment of the cancer-causing potential of sunbeds and
sunlamps. Previously, the IARC, a
committee that makes recommendations to the WHO, had determined that sunlamps
and sunbeds were "probably carcinogenic to humans" but has now stated that the
use of such devices is definitively "carcinogenic to humans". The change in the risk level puts the use of
sunlamps and sunbeds on the same level as asbestos exposure and smoking.
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New Documentary on Cervical Cancer in Uganda |
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 The BBC will air a new documentary this week focusing on
the issue of cervical cancer in the nation of Uganda. The film, which is part of the BBC's ongoing
"Kill or Cure?" series, takes a look at the problems of treating and preventing
cervical cancer in Africa. The half-hour
documentary follows women's health advocate and member of the Ugandan
parliament Sarah Nyombi as she travels across the country and gets a firsthand
look at landscape of cervical cancer in Uganda.
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