UICC is proud to support the new Elimination Partnership in the Indo-Pacific for Cervical Cancer (EPICC). Through its Cancer Advocates programme, UICC will collaborate with civil society in the region to advance national advocacy efforts for the elimination of cervical cancer.

UICC study reveals the role of cancer civil society in LMICs as well as the challenges they face in supporting cervical cancer elimination efforts, notably in expanding HPV vaccination. 

As antimicrobial medicines become less effective, the risk for people living with cancer increases. There is a pressing need for new approaches to address AMR, from better infection prevention and control to research and development for new medicines and diagnostics.

“So it goes.” 

This was how I finished a text message to a friend after informing her of my diagnosis with high-risk and advanced Mantle Cell Lymphoma, a cancer that is around three times more common in men than women, is typically widespread at diagnosis, and has a rare incidence rate of one case per 200,000 people worldwide.