This past Monday, 4 February 2019, was the 20th occasion to mark World Cancer Day. Emanating from the Charter of Paris, the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Prevention’
Taking the Initiative
Earlier this year the Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) celebrated its fifth anniversary. The aim of […]
Night Shifts Can Be Risky
The International Commission on Occupational Health held its triennial congress in Dublin, Ireland two weeks ago, where the opening keynote speaker was […]
The Colour’s Coming Back
This coming Sunday, 4 February, is World Cancer Day 2018, an initiative of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) that […]
March for Science
This past Saturday, 22 April 2017, hundreds of thousands of people participated in over 600 gatherings as part of the […]
Growing Cancer Burden for Women
The American Cancer Society (ACS) presented a paper at a congress in Paris this week, warning of an explosion in cancer deaths […]
Breast Cancer in Asia
Over the past two decades breast cancer has become a major health issue across the countries in the Pacific-Region where […]
Not Beyond Us
This past Wednesday, 4 February 2015, was World Cancer Day, a global event that has taken place since 2000, uniting the world’s population […]
Can Exercise Lower Breast Cancer Risk?
Yesterday the Cancer Council in Australia announced that the country was gaining the upper hand in the war against cancer, with 60,000 lives saved […]
An Ounce of Prevention
People often ask: What can be done now to prevent cancer in the future? Around the world we have seen […]