IAEA and expert speakers observe World Cancer Day 2015

To mark this year’s World Cancer Day, IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano welcomed H.E. Roman Tesfay, the First Lady of Ethiopia, and a panel of expert speakers to the Agency’s headquarters in Vienna, where a roundtable discussion took place to mark the day and raise awareness of the IAEA’s contribution to the struggle against cancer.

Although defeating cancer is not easy, inexpensive or likely to happen quickly, it is nevertheless possible. This was the principal message of World Cancer Day 2015, which had as its theme the rallying call ‘Not Beyond Us.’ At the IAEA event this year, speakers emphasized that solutions and treatments exist across the entire continuum of cancers, and with a proactive and positive approach, they can be implemented.