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Cover images, from top to bottom: Photomicrograph of retinoblastoma (Credit: Ralph C. Eagle, Jr, MD, Department of Pathology, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA). A woman undergoes a computed tomography scan (Credit: T2 Images/Getty Images). A waiter in a hoteli (tearoom) pours scalding hot milky tea for customers in Nyaru, a settlement at the edge of the Rift Valley in Kenya; IARC and Moi University are investigating the high rates of oesophageal cancer in Kenya and have found that consumption of hot tea is implicated (Credit: Daniel Middleton/IARC). Storage of biological samples in the IARC Biobank (Credit: Morena Sarzo/IARC). A girl receives a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination; in Pune district in Maharashtra, India, IARC is working closely with national institutions to evaluate the efficacy of fewer than three doses of HPV vaccine in protecting women against cervical cancer (Credit: Morena Sarzo/IARC). Background image: The Blue Marble: Next Generation is a mosaic of satellite data taken mostly from a NASA sensor called the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) that flies aboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites (Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Reto Stöckli).
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Names: Wild, Christopher P., editor. | Weiderpass, Elisabete, editor. | Stewart, Bernard W., editor.
Title: World cancer report: cancer research for cancer prevention / edited by Christopher P. Wild, Elisabete Weiderpass, Bernard W. Stewart.
Other titles: World cancer report 2020.
Description: Lyon: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: ISBN 978-92-832-0447-3 (pbk.) | ISBN 978-92-832-0448-0 (ebook)
Subjects: MESH: Neoplasms. | Neoplastic Processes. | Global Health.
Classification: NLM QZ 220
