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The Globalization of Cancer

Nigeria’s First Lady, Ms. Hajiya Turai Yar'Adua, attended the IAEA’s General Conference in September 2009 as an advocate for cancer control in Nigeria and the wider African region. In response to Nigeria's commitment to fighting cancer, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano travelled to the West African nation in January, where he concluded an agreement with the Government to intensify training for African cancer care professionals. In the agreement, PACT will be cooperating with the Nigerian International Cancer Centre and the National Hospital in Abuja to advance cancer research, diagnosis and treatment.

Later in January, the Director General called on world leaders convened at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to join the fight against cancer and to allocate more resources.

In February, the IAEA participated in the first NCDnet Global Forum, organized by WHO in Geneva. Worldwide, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cancer, account for 60% of global deaths. However, just 0.9% of the US $22 billion spent on health by international aid agencies in developing countries is spent on NCDs. The Forum brought key international actors on NCDs together to examine ways to strengthen advocacy, apply innovative resourcing mechanisms to NCDs, and build partnership capacity in developing regions and countries. PACT will include outcomes from the Forum to the scale-up of the WHO-IAEA Joint Programme on Cancer Control.

Making the Link: Cancer and Infections

The IAEA, through PACT, in collaboration with WHO and other international partners are launching a project for regional cancer training networks and a Virtual University for Cancer Control (VUCCnet). The United States of America generously contributed US $750 000 towards a pilot phase in Africa in 2010.

The VUCCnet aims to build human resource capacity and reduce brain drain by providing training through networked cancer centres in Africa. Common curricula will help ensure transferability of skills and certification, and information will be accessible via low-cost on-line channels.

The VUCCnet builds on PACT’s history of providing access to training. In addition to ongoing courses offered by the US National Cancer Institute, PACT recently supported the participation of seven developing country professionals in the 3rd International Cancer Control Congress; five African experts in the 7th International Cancer Control Congress of the African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer; and 13 West African medical staff in a workshop on palliative care and pain control in Burkina Faso.

Global Action to Fight Cancer

Well-known cancer risk factors include smoking, alcohol, fatty diets and overexposure to the sun. But infectious agents, including viruses, bacteria and other microbes, are also a risk factor – responsible for close to one in four cases of cancer in developing countries. A leading infection based cancer is cervical cancer – the second most common cancer in women worldwide.

On 4 February, World Cancer Day, PACT partners the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) called for global action to reduce cancers caused by infections.

PACT marked World Cancer Day by hosting an event for staff of the Vienna based United Nations organizations and representatives of Member State Permanent Missions. The IAEA’s Director General, the Ambassador for Algeria and Chairperson of the G77 and China, as well as the Ambassadors from Mongolia and the United States of America, highlighted the scale of the cancer epidemic and voiced continuing support for PACT and the IAEA in the global fight against cancer.

Nancy Goodman Brinker, founder of the US breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Cancer Control, joined forces with another champion of cancer prevention and control, Professor Peter Boyle, at a special PACT event in October.

Held at IAEA Headquarters, the Globalization of Cancer seminar urged a global response to combat the cancer epidemic. Speaking to representatives from dozens of Member States, Ambassador Brinker emphasized that “Every country must make cancer a priority; every country musk seek to change the culture.” Peter Boyle echoed this call for increased action and described PACT as “inspirational” in its efforts to forge partnerships with other cancer organizations working in low resource countries. Left: Attendees at the seminar. (Photo: A. Zuccato/IAEA.) Right: Ambassador Nancy

Goodman Brinker and Professor Peter Boyle. (Photo: D. Calma/IAEA.)

PACT Launches Training Networks in Africa

A selection of cancer posters provided for World Cancer Day by the San Ignacio de Loyola University Art & Design Programme from Lima, Peru.

In developing countries with limited public awareness and early detection programmes, most people arrive at hospital too late for effective treatment of their cancer. In this context, the focus of cancer control programmes is to relieve a person’s pain and suffering at the end of life. In 2009, PACT supported the production of the third edition of the International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research Palliative Care Handbook. This pocket-sized guide offers practitioners working in developing countries practical advice to manage palliative care for patients.

Dignity at the End of Life

“PACT is calling on donors, great and small, to add their support to the fight against cancer. I urge you to join this effort. Together we can close the gap and end the cancer inequalities that spell pain and death for millions of people.HE Hajiya Turai Yar'Adua First Lady of Nigeria

PACT recently received donations and pledges from:

Monaco € 100 000

Spain € 500 000

USA $ 750 000

Thank you!

PACT at GC 53

PACT met with the following countries at the IAEA's 2009 General Conference:

Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Estonia, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Korea, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Uganda, Zimbabwe

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano (middle) at the World Economic Forum, Davos, 28 January 2010. (Photo: Yan Xuetong, Tsinghua University.)

“The G77 and China commends PACT, which is a concrete embodiment of the peaceful use of nuclear technology for civilian and humanitarian purposes.HE Taous Feroukhi, Ambassador for Algeria and Chairperson of G77 and China, speaking at PACT’s World Cancer Day event

“We have to redesign the global health agenda and make cancer in developing countries a key part of it.IAEA DG Yukiya Amano Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Davos ”

Mr Edward Akaho (right), Director General of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, explaining the situation in Ghana to Massoud Samiei, PACT Director. (Photo: A. Zuccato/IAEA.)

Training of palliative care providers in Burkina Faso. (Photo: S. Perrier-Bonnet/Alliance Mondiale Contre le Cancer AMCC-INCTR.)

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The Globalization of Cancer

Nigeria’s First Lady, Ms. Hajiya Turai Yar'Adua, attended the IAEA’s General Conference in September 2009 as an advocate for cancer control in Nigeria and the wider African region. In response to Nigeria's commitment to fighting cancer, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano travelled to the West African nation in January, where he concluded an agreement with the Government to intensify training for African cancer care professionals. In the agreement, PACT will be cooperating with the Nigerian International Cancer Centre and the National Hospital in Abuja to advance cancer research, diagnosis and treatment.

Later in January, the Director General called on world leaders convened at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to join the fight against cancer and to allocate more resources.

In February, the IAEA participated in the first NCDnet Global Forum, organized by WHO in Geneva. Worldwide, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cancer, account for 60% of global deaths. However, just 0.9% of the US $22 billion spent on health by international aid agencies in developing countries is spent on NCDs. The Forum brought key international actors on NCDs together to examine ways to strengthen advocacy, apply innovative resourcing mechanisms to NCDs, and build partnership capacity in developing regions and countries. PACT will include outcomes from the Forum to the scale-up of the WHO-IAEA Joint Programme on Cancer Control.

Making the Link: Cancer and Infections

The IAEA, through PACT, in collaboration with WHO and other international partners are launching a project for regional cancer training networks and a Virtual University for Cancer Control (VUCCnet). The United States of America generously contributed US $750 000 towards a pilot phase in Africa in 2010.

The VUCCnet aims to build human resource capacity and reduce brain drain by providing training through networked cancer centres in Africa. Common curricula will help ensure transferability of skills and certification, and information will be accessible via low-cost on-line channels.

The VUCCnet builds on PACT’s history of providing access to training. In addition to ongoing courses offered by the US National Cancer Institute, PACT recently supported the participation of seven developing country professionals in the 3rd International Cancer Control Congress; five African experts in the 7th International Cancer Control Congress of the African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer; and 13 West African medical staff in a workshop on palliative care and pain control in Burkina Faso.

Global Action to Fight Cancer

Well-known cancer risk factors include smoking, alcohol, fatty diets and overexposure to the sun. But infectious agents, including viruses, bacteria and other microbes, are also a risk factor – responsible for close to one in four cases of cancer in developing countries. A leading infection based cancer is cervical cancer – the second most common cancer in women worldwide.

On 4 February, World Cancer Day, PACT partners the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) called for global action to reduce cancers caused by infections.

PACT marked World Cancer Day by hosting an event for staff of the Vienna based United Nations organizations and representatives of Member State Permanent Missions. The IAEA’s Director General, the Ambassador for Algeria and Chairperson of the G77 and China, as well as the Ambassadors from Mongolia and the United States of America, highlighted the scale of the cancer epidemic and voiced continuing support for PACT and the IAEA in the global fight against cancer.

Nancy Goodman Brinker, founder of the US breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Cancer Control, joined forces with another champion of cancer prevention and control, Professor Peter Boyle, at a special PACT event in October.

Held at IAEA Headquarters, the Globalization of Cancer seminar urged a global response to combat the cancer epidemic. Speaking to representatives from dozens of Member States, Ambassador Brinker emphasized that “Every country must make cancer a priority; every country musk seek to change the culture.” Peter Boyle echoed this call for increased action and described PACT as “inspirational” in its efforts to forge partnerships with other cancer organizations working in low resource countries. Left: Attendees at the seminar. (Photo: A. Zuccato/IAEA.) Right: Ambassador Nancy

Goodman Brinker and Professor Peter Boyle. (Photo: D. Calma/IAEA.)

PACT Launches Training Networks in Africa

A selection of cancer posters provided for World Cancer Day by the San Ignacio de Loyola University Art & Design Programme from Lima, Peru.

In developing countries with limited public awareness and early detection programmes, most people arrive at hospital too late for effective treatment of their cancer. In this context, the focus of cancer control programmes is to relieve a person’s pain and suffering at the end of life. In 2009, PACT supported the production of the third edition of the International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research Palliative Care Handbook. This pocket-sized guide offers practitioners working in developing countries practical advice to manage palliative care for patients.

Dignity at the End of Life

“PACT is calling on donors, great and small, to add their support to the fight against cancer. I urge you to join this effort. Together we can close the gap and end the cancer inequalities that spell pain and death for millions of people.HE Hajiya Turai Yar'Adua First Lady of Nigeria

PACT recently received donations and pledges from:

Monaco € 100 000

Spain € 500 000

USA $ 750 000

Thank you!

PACT at GC 53

PACT met with the following countries at the IAEA's 2009 General Conference:

Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Estonia, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Korea, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Uganda, Zimbabwe

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano (middle) at the World Economic Forum, Davos, 28 January 2010. (Photo: Yan Xuetong, Tsinghua University.)

“The G77 and China commends PACT, which is a concrete embodiment of the peaceful use of nuclear technology for civilian and humanitarian purposes.HE Taous Feroukhi, Ambassador for Algeria and Chairperson of G77 and China, speaking at PACT’s World Cancer Day event

“We have to redesign the global health agenda and make cancer in developing countries a key part of it.IAEA DG Yukiya Amano Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Davos ”

Mr Edward Akaho (right), Director General of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, explaining the situation in Ghana to Massoud Samiei, PACT Director. (Photo: A. Zuccato/IAEA.)

Training of palliative care providers in Burkina Faso. (Photo: S. Perrier-Bonnet/Alliance Mondiale Contre le Cancer AMCC-INCTR.)

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