IARC calls on countries with high stomach cancer burden to act to prevent the disease

A new report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization, urges health authorities of countries with high stomach cancer burden to include stomach cancer in their national cancer control programmes and allocate more resources to control the disease. A Working Group of international experts convened by IARC reviewed evidence to evaluate strategies for stomach cancer prevention based on the eradication of Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that is the primary cause of stomach cancer. Read more here.