Shama Virani

📢 PAPER ALERT!
Cross-ancestral GWAS of >19k head & neck cancer cases & >38k controls identifies 29 new risk signals
🌍 First to use diverse global populations
🧬 TP53 variant → ~40% lower risk
🛡️ Distinct HLA/HPV patterns
📖 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#DiversityInResearch #HNSCC #GWAS

02.10.2025 11:14 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Tobacco kills, no matter how it’s packaged.

Help us stop the manipulation: bit.ly/NoTobacco2025

#WorldNoTobaccoDay

31.05.2025 08:47 — 👍 96    🔁 40    💬 4    📌 1

A hand holds a pink-and-white cigarette pack with several cigarettes sticking out. Thick black tar-like liquid drips from the hand and the pack. Behind it is a smoky purple and blue background. The image reads: “Unmask the appeal. #TobaccoExposed” at the top, and “FILTERED BUT STILL FATAL.” in bold text at the center and bottom.

Filters are a marketing trick to make cigarettes seem less dangerous. Smoking kills, with or without a filter.

They make it easier to start smoking & harder to quit.

Filters have even contributed to a rise in an aggressive type of lung cancer. #TobaccoExposed

#WorldNoTobaccoDay 🚭

31.05.2025 09:21 — 👍 352    🔁 88    💬 12    📌 6

Very nice to featured as a Global Ismaili Innovator!

#IPN #ismailiprofessionals #ismailiinnovators

24.05.2025 07:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The cancer death rate is declining steadily in the US, and more people are living longer and fuller lives after a cancer diagnosis. Read about the research-driven progress during National Cancer Research Month—#NCRM25: cancerprogressreport.aacr.org/progress/cpr... #contents8 #UnitedByCancerResearch

04.05.2025 23:42 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2

Happy World Oral Health Day! Here are some tips from the Oral Cancer Team at IARC/WHO (www.iarc.who.int/teams-oct/) and information on our work to reduce the #oralcancer burden globally.
#worldoralhealthday2025 #OralHealth

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20.03.2025 15:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The call for the IARC Postdoctoral Fellowship is now open! Interested to hear about what you can gain from this? Have a look: youtube.com/watch?v=6Riv...

and apply here: training.iarc.who.int/iarc-postdoc...

#postdoc #LMICs #CancerResearch #opportunity
#InternationalAgencyforResearchonCancer

10.03.2025 12:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Global patterns and trends in breast cancer incidence and mortality across 185 countries - Nature Medicine Global analyses of breast cancer incidence and mortality show that only seven high-income countries are currently meeting the targets of the World Health Organization Global Breast Cancer Initiative i...

The projected global rise of breast cancer cases (38% increase) and deaths (68% increase) by 2050, disproportionately impacting low-HDI countries
nature.com/articles/s41...

24.02.2025 16:09 — 👍 98    🔁 31    💬 5    📌 0

Worth reposting!

21.02.2025 03:09 — 👍 457    🔁 86    💬 6    📌 2

Hello Bluesky! It's so nice and shiny here...

27.01.2025 07:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Prevalence of cancer survivors in the United States - PubMed Cancer survivors are growing in number. In the United States, most cancer survivors are long-term and very long-term survivors, representing a substantial proportion of the US population.

This is the power of tertiary cancer prevention. Surviving cancer. We need to make sure #survivorship is a focus of #CancerResearch #CancerSurvivorship

go.nih.gov/rOUbZJD

19.01.2025 12:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0