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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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15,000 new Declaration signatures! |
 In collaboration with UICC, the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) has made a pledge to collect signatures for the World Cancer Declaration, which is a plan of action to help substantially reduce the global cancer burden by 2020 and increase cancer's visibility on the international political agenda.
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MCM features on Global Health TV |
 Global Health TV has just released two feature stories and several
in-depth interviews focusing on the My Child Matters (MCM) initiative
and childhood cancer. Filmed at the recent two-day MCM forum in Dakar,
Senegal, Global Health TV was present throughout the event and spoke
with the UICC, sanofi-aventis and many of the key stakeholders involved
in paediatric oncology.
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The next health tsunami: Non-communicable diseases |
 GENEVA, Switzerland, 8 July 2009 - The International Diabetes Federation (IDF), the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) and the World Heart Federation (WHF) called today on the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to take immediate action to avert the fastest growing threat by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to global health.
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