Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation to promote cutting edge research as well as the advancement of young researchers and women, technology transfer, outreach and education, the NCCR (Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research) Chemical Biology is co-led by Howard Riezman, University of Geneva and Kai Johnsson, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

The annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is always a major event: the presence of 18,000 people from all over the world is something amazing! And even more so when one considers the young age of participants and of speakers (in comparison with other conferences). The presence of different sessions going on at the same time often requires difficult choices, and a...

The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) system of protection consists of existing, planned, and emergency exposure situations. With the 2007 Recommendations in ICRP Publication 103, a coherent approach has been established that emphasises the optimisation of protection with appropriate constraints or reference levels in each exposure situation. Existing exposure situation...

This report was commissioned by the IRPA President to provide an assessment of the impact on members of IRPA Associate Societies of the introduction of ICRP recommendations for a reduced dose limit for the lens of the eye. The report summarises current practice and considers possible changes that may be required. Recommendations for further collaboration, clarification and changes to working pr...

studies undertaken during the last 5 years in the babol research station of the institute of public health research, teheran university, with the collaboration of the international agency for research on cancer in the caspian littoral and ardabil area in the north of iran has indicated the presence of cancer in 48 different sites. the five more prevalent types of cancer found in that area in or...

due to the high incidence of deaths from breast cancer, high cost of treatment and limited resources, the need to formulate and implement effective programs in reducing the burden of disease is obvious. care, control and creation of cancer information system having an infrastructure from collection of minimum data sets (mds) are the top priorities of research in iran's ministry of health.this i...

Recent progress in understanding key events in carcinogenesis, early cancer detection, therapeutic interventions to prevent cancer, public policy, and biobehavioral approaches toward cancer control was the subject of the 6th Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research held on December 5 to 8, 2007, in Philadelphia, PA. Abundant preclinical and clinical data s...

This statement provides a concise overview of the evidence on the benefits of staying active after a cancer diagnosis and the current guidelines for exercise prescription with this population.