Building the global evidence base for improving cancer care quality; a prioritized set of indicators for cancer care facilities. Thank you to many partners; NCG of India Pramesh CS ASCO Julie Gralow World Health Organisation Bente Mikkelsen AORTIC thelancet.com/journals/lanon…

Today marks the release of our NEW set of estimates of the global cancer burden in 2022 🎉 We estimate that 20 million people were diagnosed with and nearly 10 million people died from cancer globally in 2022. Check out our new webpages for more! 👇 🔗gco.iarc.who.int/today/en

Highly recommend reading Movendi International's latest newsletter for #WorldCancerDay and listening to their fantastic podcast on #alcoholandcancer! Amazing to hear first-hand experiences of community action to raise awareness and drive alcohol policy change for cancer prevention 👏

Great to see progress in reducing deaths from most cancer types among middle-aged adults in the UK 👏 But this study found worrying increases in rates of #livercancer, #oralcancer, and womb cancer - all of which have preventable risk factors! What are we missing here?

Cancers caused by alcohol have a profound impact on economies across Europe In 2018, over 23K people aged under 65 died from alcohol-related cancer in 31 countries This cost at least €4.6 billion although this is a significant underestimate Harriet Rumgay ias.org.uk/2023/04/25/at-…

📣 Prof Tim Stockwell's public lecture is today! ➡️You can sign up using the link below until 2pm! 🎟️Free to attend, online and in person at RCPEdin 🔗eventbrite.co.uk/e/health-benef…

ONS have published alcohol-specific deaths data for 2022 for England & Wales today, so we now have data for the whole of the UK. The picture is pretty grim, with deaths surpassing 10,000 for the first time on record - up 32.8% since 2019. ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

We're #hiring a Postdoc to join us at IARC - please share! 🙏 Are you experienced in qualitative research? Are you interested in examining health system responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in low- and middle-income countries? Apply now! More info 🔗 iarc.who.int/cards_page/pos…

37 MILLION YOUTH aged 13-15 use tobacco globally. 🤯🤯 This World No Tobacco Day, it is time to speak out and step in! See our 🆕 report and learn more on how tobacco targets youth to cash in profits, creating a new wave of addiction: bit.ly/44UxYvU #TobaccoExposed

Only a few days left to apply for our new #postdoc opportunity at IARC!

Harming health in the name of profit—big industries are driving rates of noncommunicable diseases & blocking health policies. Join us on June 12 to hear evidence from a new landmark report about harmful commercial practices. #NCDs #CDoH Register here: bit.ly/3KhWVba

Alcohol can increase risks to health, even at low levels, but the majority of harms stem from heavy episodic or continuous consumption. Know the risks, protect your health. 🆕 WHO global status report on alcohol & health and treatment of substance use disorders

In 2019, 2.6 million deaths were caused by alcohol ⚠️ 2 million were among men ⚠️ 13% of deaths were among younger people aged 20-39 years bit.ly/3wXqyHo

New World Health Organization (WHO) calls on governments to recommit to the Global Action Plan 2022-2030 with a focus on #SAFERPackage, including: ▶️Restricting availability of alcohol ▶️ Bans or comprehensive restrictions on #AlcoholMarketing ▶️ Increasing price of alcohol via tax & pricing policies

This is appalling and, unfortunately, not shocking at all due to the huge influence big industry has on our governments. I'm on my way back from the inspiring International Youth Health Organization #FILTERED conference on #ChallengingBigIndustryNarratives - our work is needed now more than ever!

Just published! American Cancer Society releases new data on proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the US. acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/ca… Farhad Islami, MD PhD Emily C. Marlow Blake Thomson Harriet Rumgay Alpa Patel Ahmedin Jemal OncoAlert

Published today CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians: Updated info on % & no. of cancer cases/deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the US. ~40% of cancer cases and half of cancer deaths were attributable to evaluated risk factors. American Cancer Society acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.33… pic.x.com/w3bxf4flmc

Despite the decrease in prevalence of #cigarettes 🚬 in previous decades in 🇺🇲, #smoking is still the leading risk factor contributing to 20% of new #Cancer cases and 30% of cancer #deaths overall. Congratulations Farhad Islami, MD PhD et al for this work.

Alcohol causes cancer. Yet few people know this🎗️ Our latest film 𝐀𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐡𝐨𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫: 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 ft Prof Linda Bauld explains: ➡️How alcohol causes cancer ➡️Public awareness ➡️Industry misinformation ➡️What would reduce cases youtube.com/watch?v=NAJ88Y…