Abstract:
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) was
founded on 20 May 1965. For the past 50 years, the IARC
has served as the specialised cancer research unit of the World
Health Organization. The IARC strives to promote international
collaboration in cancer research. Celebrating the 50th year of its existence, the IARC held a conference
in Lyon on 7 - 10 June 2016, where almost 1 000 scientists from across
the globe came together to discuss today’s cancer-related challenges
and tomorrow’s agenda for cancer prevention. The programme
was characterised by distinguished speakers, including Freddie
Bray and Graham Colditz. There were themed parallel sessions on
‘epidemiology’, ‘mechanisms’ and ‘prevention and mortality reduction’
and panel debates and more than 300 posters were presented.
