IACR congratulates the 2020 Enrico Anglesio Virtual Prize Awardees
Enrico Anglesio Virtual Prize 2020: Diana R Withrow, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA for her work, Trends in non-malignant brain tumors incidence by source of diagnosis in USA, 2004-17
Elvo Tempia Special Prize: Christiane Rudolph, University of Lubeck, Germany, for her work, “Breast cancer survival in German-Danish border regions"
and the
Sharon L Whelan - IACR Special Prize: to Dr Wilmer A Tarupi , UTE University, Quito, Ecuador, for his work,
“Educational inequalities in gastric cancer incidence and mortality, Quito 1996-2015“
To view the details of the prizes please go to this page: https://www.fondoelenamoroni.org/en/the-prize/
and the recording of the award ceremony here.
We thank everyone especially our young researcher - colleagues, who participated in this prize and our colleagues at the Enrico Anglesio Organizing Committee for the successful conduct of this first virtual edition.
The Enrico Anglesio Prize has been part of IACR's Annual Conference Programme since 2006. For this year, it was organised as a virtual edition - candidates were invited to present a written work on cancer epidemiology / cancer registration , that, in normal times, they would have presumably presented orally at a GRELL or the IACR Scientific Conference, and then submitted for publication on a Journal.
8th Seminar on International Cancer Research & Cancer Control:
Incidence Statistics and Staging of Childhood Cancer
The National Cancer Center, Japan (NCC) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) held its j8th Seminar last 13 October 2020 . Presentations feature were:
Global Surveillance of Cancer in Children by Dr Eva Steliarova-Foucher, IARC; and
The Toronto Childhood Cancer Staging Guidelines by Prof Joanne Aitken, IACR President and Director, Australian Childhood Cancer Registry
Read NCC Japan's press release here.
Overview of the Cancer Registries and COVID-19 Survey Results
EU General Data Protection Regulation
The new European Regulation on the data protection (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018. We take this opportunity for us to reaffirm you our commitment of transparency and the particular attention that we carry in the protection of your personal data.
We invite you to consult the IACR Privacy Policy here.
Reminder for Registries and IACR Members
The IACR Online Directory and Using the Registries Portal
Accurate contact details are essential to ensure good communication with the membership and to have an online presence for the registry.
The registries portal (https://cinportal.iarc.fr) and the IACR website is designed to allow all registries and members to upload and update not only contact details but the registry profiles, descriptions and featured reports and publications. This is one of the benefits of being a member of the Association: webpages and publicly-available information about your registry that could be useful for establishing contacts with other registries, institutions and researchers.
All IACR member-registries have the access and login details. Credentials can also be obtained from the IACR Secretariat through This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. You are invited to make full use of this online facility.
