The International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC is a short of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Lyon / France.The tasks of the Agency
The main objective of the IARC is the directing and coordinating research into the causes of cancer. The IARC conducts a series of global epidemiological studies of cancer. Be further developed scientific prevention strategies. The IARC publishes a series of monographs on cancer risks. 100 volumes have been published so far (as of 14 February 2012), the monographs of the past 20 years are available online. The works here include exposures (including work-related) with various chemicals (eg, formaldehyde, lead compounds), physical agents (eg, ionizing radiation, electromagnetic pollution), biological agents (such as Helicobacter pylori, Epstein-Barr virus) and related to lifestyle factors (eg, : tobacco use, ethanol consumption, sunbathing).
Since 1971, the more than 900 agents and variables were examined, and about 400 have been identified as carcinogenic or potentially carcinogenic to humans ..
The IARC also assumes the classification of chemicals and their mixtures in five categories of known carcinogenic to probably not carcinogenic to humans before (see: carcinogenic).
The research on the treatment of cancer is not a task of the IARC. The prevention (prevention) of cancer is the focus of the agency.
The IARC is involved in the determination of disease names and classifications in the field of tumor diseases and is with WHO the book series "WHO Classification of Tumours" - "WHO classification of tumors" out. These volumes are each based on proven international expert consensus meetings and try to unify divergent classification systems.Management of the IARC
Since January 2009, the British director Christopher Wild is the IARC.List of former leader
Peter Boyle (2004-2008)
Paul Kleihues (1994-2003)
Lorenzo Tomatis (1982-1993)
John Higginson (1967-1981)
Further information on the IARC
300 employees work at IARC from around 50 countries in the headquarters in Lyon, each year in addition many visiting scholars and interns are employed. The biennial budget 2006/2007 amounted to approximately U.S. $ 40 million. In addition, approximately 20 million U.S. $ to be raised for individual research projects per year on average.
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