About UICC
UICC’s mission is to unite and support the cancer community to reduce the global cancer burden, to promote greater equity, and to ensure that cancer control continues to be a priority in the world health and development agenda.
The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) is the oldest and largest global membership organisation dedicated to the fight against cancer.
Founded in 1933 and based in Geneva, UICC has over 1200 member organisations in 172 countries and territories. The membership base includes the world’s major cancer leagues and societies, research institutes, treatment centres, hospitals, ministries of health, public health agencies and patient support groups. UICC’s mission is to both unite and support the cancer community in its efforts to reduce the global cancer burden, promote greater equity and ensure that cancer control continues to be a priority in the world health and development agenda.
Partnering for success
UICC has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and has official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO) and partnerships with the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). UICC is committed to working in partnership, and engages over partners, including associations, companies and foundations, to amplify and extend its collective impact.
What makes UICC unique
UICC is the only global cancer organisation representing all cancer types, across the continuum of cancer care (prevention, early detection, treatment and care, palliative care). The organisation connects the most influential health leaders, governments, civil society, policy makers and private sector through its platforms and activities.
Uniting the cancer community and creating new initiatives
UICC has reached millions of people with World Cancer Day, welcomed thousands of delegates at its World Cancer Congresses and convened top decision-makers in the health and cancer communities at its World Cancer Leaders’ Summits.
Since 2009, it has launched five new organisations: the NCD Alliance (2009), the McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer (2012), the International Cancer Control Partnership (2013), the City Cancer Challenge Foundation or C/Can (2017) and the ATOM Coalition (2022).
Governance
UICC is governed by its member organisations. They meet in a General Assembly, which is held every two years around the World Cancer Congress. A Board of 17 Directors, elected by full members at the General Assembly, acts as the executive body of UICC.
cience and evidence at UICC’s core
- The TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours, the global standard for cancer staging, is regularly reviewed and updated by the UICC TNM Project, alongside its companion publications, the TNM Supplement and the TNM Atlas. The UICC TNM Project, together with the International Agency for Research in Cancer and the National Cancer Institute, has developed a new classification system, “Essential TNM”, which can be used notably in low-income settings to collect stage data when complete information is not available.
- The International Journal of Cancer is UICC’s official journal since 1966 and a world renowned publication in experimental, clinical and epidemiological research.
- The Manual of Clinical Oncology, published by UICC, is a concise reference that covers state-of-the-art multidisciplinary clinical oncology to meet the needs of clinicians caring for cancer patients throughout the world.
- UICC partners with the American Society of Clinical Oncology on the open-access, online-only JCO Global Oncology publication.
Contact us
Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)
31-33 Avenue Giuseppe Motta
1202 Geneva
Switzerland
info@uicc.org
T: +41 22 809 1811
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