Cancer / disease / indispensable cancer / international cancer / /
Organization
World Health Organization / Unit of Epidemiology and Biostatistics / World Health Assembly / Unit of Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis / Unit of Environmental Carcinogenesis / first IARC Scientific Council / Unit of Analytical Epidemiology / International Agency for Research / /
Person
Julian Little / Margaret Chan / Nancy Higginson / Sylvia Lesage / Astier de La Vigerie / Thierry Philip / Susan Haver-Legros / Richard Peto / Norman Breslow / François Blancpain / François Deloche / Teresa Lee / Roland Dray / Isabelle Soerjomataram / Karen Müller / Charles de Gaulle / Francis Latarjet / Andrew Hall / Nick Day / Nicolas Gaudin / Max Parkin / Bruce Armstrong / Jacques Ferlay / Tony McMichael / Freddie Bray / Vladimir Anisimov / Sarah Dunbar-Khelifi / Hiroshi Yamasaki / Walter Davis / Jessica Cox / Raymond Latarjet / David Zaridze / Keiji Saita / George Klein / Ann Shannon / Christopher P. Wild / Gilbert Lenoir / Natacha Blavoyer / Véronique Terrasse / Helmut Bartsch / Reetta Holmila / Jacques Latarjet / /
Position
Senior Visiting Scientist / publishing assistant / production assistant / editor / President / Director / knowledge manager / managing editor / scientist / Director-General / head / proofreader / member / /
FOREWORD Fifty years ago, led by President Charles de Gaulle, France set an ambitious goal by proposing the establishment of an international cancer institute under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO).