\r\nDr Elisabete Weiderpass, Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), will deliver a lecture titled \u201cCurrent situation and changes in the epidemiology of cancer worldwide\u201d to a select group of clinicians, researchers, advocates, politicians, and journalists during the opening session of the World Oncology Forum, which takes place on 28\u201330 September in Ascona, Switzerland.\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nDr Weiderpass will present IARC, the unique advantages conferred by IARC\u2019s relationship with the World Health Organization, and the ever-increasing importance of cancer as a leading cause of premature death worldwide, including estimates of the global cancer burden and projections for 2040, cancer inequalities, and key opportunities for cancer prevention.\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nThis meeting marks 10 years since the first World Oncology Forum, which resulted in the publication of the \u201cStop cancer now!\u201d appeal for global action. The European School of Oncology has organized the event with the theme of \u201cGlobal fight against cancer: past, present, future\u201d to discuss what has changed and whether progress has been made since the publication of the appeal in 2013.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":51182,"template":"","class_list":["post-52415","news-events","type-news-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iarc.spherical.horse\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-events\/52415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iarc.spherical.horse\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iarc.spherical.horse\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news-events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iarc.spherical.horse\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iarc.spherical.horse\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}