Posts Tagged ‘WHO’

New WHO Roadmap for Breast Cancer

Posted on: February 10th, 2023 by admin

Last Saturday, 4 February 2023, marked World Cancer Day and, in advance of this annual event, the World Health Organization (WHO) released […]

Impact of Covid-19 on Breast Screening

Posted on: October 2nd, 2020 by admin

It’s the first week of October, the month when the colour pink highlights the efforts by society to remind women […]

Panning for Gold

Posted on: August 7th, 2020 by admin 1 Comment

The title for today’s blog has been adapted from an editorial highlighting a paper that appeared this week in Science Translational Medicine, […]

Horns of a Dilemma

Posted on: May 22nd, 2020 by admin 3 Comments

Imagine you are a creative person and you invent something with significant commercial potential. Should you fulfil the legal obligation […]

An Outward Selling Mission to the Middle East

Posted on: October 5th, 2018 by admin 2 Comments

On Monday 1st October, Arab News published a front-page story on breast cancer, stating that women in the Middle East remain reluctant […]

Cancer Cure in 5 to 10 Years

Posted on: February 10th, 2017 by admin 1 Comment

Last Saturday, 4 February 2017, was World Cancer Day and the WHO provided new guidelines, with a focus on diagnosing and treating the […]

Global Trends in Breast Cancer Rates

Posted on: September 18th, 2015 by admin

Carol DeSantis has recently published an important paper entitled “International variation in female breast cancer incidence and mortality rates” in Cancer Epidemiology, […]

Improving the State of the World

Posted on: June 5th, 2015 by admin 1 Comment

For the past week much of the world has been focused on the lurid details surrounding FIFA and its president, Sepp Blatter. […]

Jury Still Out on E-Cigarettes

Posted on: January 23rd, 2015 by admin

Active smoking increases the risk of breast cancer and when women stop smoking, the risk disappears. Among the most widely used strategies to assist […]

Combating the Ebola Epidemic

Posted on: September 26th, 2014 by admin 3 Comments

Ebola virus. © Cynthia Goldsmith, CDC Yesterday the President of the United States went on the offensive at a special high-level […]