The Cancer Atlas 2nd Edition launched in Portuguese

It is the first time that this global tool to reduce the burden of cancer has been made available in Portuguese. The Cancer Atlas highlights Brazil’s strengths and opportunities for improvement as they relate to cancer. It allows policy makers, researchers, and academics to fully assess differences in risk, burden, prevention, and treatment.

The Launch was celebrated with two events in Sao Paolo and Barretos. During the Launch in Sao Palo, UICC Board Member and current president of Femama, Maira Caleffi, pointed out the importance and power of advocacy to increase the visibility and need of cancer control and to develop better policies and national cancer control programs that will help patients and save lives.

She strongly encouraged all cancer control advocates and patients to also use the Cancer Atlas in developing their own advocacy work at the local and national level.

The Portuguese version will be disseminated throughout the Lusophone region of Africa as well as Portugal. A website for the Cancer Atlas is set up in parallel: www.atlasdocancer.com.br.

The Cancer Atlas is the result of a joint initiative between the American Cancer Society, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and the Union for International Cancer Control to give the global cancer community a new tool in the fight against cancer. The Atlas provides leaders worldwide with actionable data and insights to make better decisions, in order to work toward putting an end to the cancer epidemic.

The Portuguese version of the Cancer Atlas will be soon available for download here.

The Cancer Atlas, 2nd Edition is currently available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Hindi, Chinese and Turkish. The Atlas is being translated into Arabic and Farsi and those versions will be launched in the coming months. For more information, please contact advocacy@uicc.org

To read the official press release in Portuguese, please download it here.

To watch a news report on the launch, please click here (only in Brazilian Portuguese).

From the foreword of the Atlas:

“Para nós, foi empolgante rever o material e perceber o quão rico e inspirador é o conteúdo do Atlas, trazendo informações objetivas, impactantes e em linguagem acessível, sem contar a beleza de sua iconografia. Os principais fatores de risco para o câncer são discutidos de forma precisa e abrangente. O Atlas evidencia ainda, de maneira contundente, o impacto do câncer para a sociedade em diversos cenários pelo mundo, incluindo o panorama na América Latina e em países lusófonos, além de discutir medidas para o controle da doença. Esta é, sem dúvida, uma publicação inovadora, de alta qualidade e rigor, que servirá como obra de referência e de consulta não apenas aos profissionais dedicados à prevenção, ao diagnóstico e ao tratamento das neoplasias malignas, mas também aos gestores públicos, aos pesquisadores, à imprensa e a todos aqueles que almejam compartilhar da incansável luta contra o câncer.”

English translation:

For us, it was so exciting to review the material, realizing how rich and inspiring is the content of Atlas, with objective and impactful information, in accessible language, using a beautiful iconography. The main risk factors for cancer are discussed precise and comprehensively. The Atlas emphatically shows the impact of cancer to the society in many settings worldwide, including the panorama in Latin America and Portuguese-speaking countries, and discusses measures to control the disease. This is undoubtedly an innovative, high quality and accurate publication, which will serve as reference and consultation not only to professionals dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of malignant neoplasms, but also to managers, researchers, the press and all those who desire to share the relentless fight against cancer.