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tobacco control conference will meet in Mumbai |
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In the four decades since it first met, the World Conference on Tobacco OR Health has been an extremely important
vehicle in the progress of global tobacco control.
The 14th World Conference will take place in Mumbai, India, from 8 to 12 March 2009. It
will present a multisectoral approach - policies, pathways, partners and people - and highlight the complexity of India's own tobacco problem,
arising from a wide variety of tobacco products for smoking and smokeless use.
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15 January deadline for international cancer study grants |
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 Clinicians, investigators, and pubic health professionals are invited to apply for Yamagiwa-Yoshida Memorial International Cancer Study Grants.
The grants, with an average value of US$10,000, are for three months. Selection results will be communicated in mid-April, and grants should be taken up within six months of the award.
Application deadline 15 January 2009
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The 15th UICC Reach to Recovery International breast cancer support conference will meet in Brisbane, Australia, 13-15 May 2009.
This unique event will provide opportunities for Reach to Recovery volunteers, breast cancer survivors, advocates, family members, health professionals, and all who care for and support breast cancer patients to exchange stories from around the world, sharing different perspectives from the Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, North America, the Middle East and Africa.
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world cancer declaration news |
The Lancet Oncology underlines the need for partnership
"The World Cancer Declaration is an ambitious affirmation that needs to resonate with an intensity far greater than that achieved with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - the only notable success story up to now in implementing a global public-health policy with potential to decrease the cancer burden."
A platform for European cancer research centres
The World Cancer Declaration should be used as a template for national and regional declarations in which its 11 targets are adapted to the priorities of particular governments, UICC's immediate past president Dr Franco Cavalli told a meeting in Paris in October.
The meeting was intended to advance the movement towards a collaborative platform for cancer research centres in Europe. The Stockholm Declaration (November 2007) recognizes that European cancer research has a strong foundation in biomedical science, good patient registries and biobanks but is still too fragmented to reach the critical mass needed to translate basic research discoveries into clinical settings for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients.
In his keynote speech, Dr Cavalli emphasized that research will play a crucial role if we are to meet the World Cancer Declaration's targets by 2020.
The meeting was held under the auspices of Unesco and the Initiative for Science in Europe and funded by the Danish Cancer Society, a UICC member organization.
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