Developing evidence‐based cancer prevention recommendations: methodology of the World Code Against Cancer Framework to create region‐specific codes
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Journal Article
Abstract
Prevention offers the greatest public health potential and the most cost-effective long-term cancer control strategy. Authoritative, clear, evidence-based, and region-specific recommendations to actively contribute to cancer prevention are extremely valuable for the public, health professionals, advocates, and policymakers worldwide. The World Code Against Cancer Framework offers a two-level hierarchy mechanism to systematically review and synthesize the latest scientific insights, while assessing the epidemiological, socioeconomic, cultural conditions, and health systems context of a given region of the world, to inform decision-making at the individual and system levels, implemented through Regional Codes Against Cancer. In this manuscript, we describe the rigorous methodology established by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, consisting of a step-by-step decision-making algorithm to develop region-specific Codes Against Cancer. These comprehensive evidence-based tools on cancer prevention aim to transfer the latest evidence from etiological research and preventive interventions into actionable information for the population and for policymakers.
Date Issued
2025-11-05
Date Acceptance
2025-07-20
Citation
International Journal of Cancer, 2025, 158 (1), pp.9-18
ISSN
0020-7136
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
9
End Page
18
Journal / Book Title
International Journal of Cancer
Volume
158
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© 2025 The Author(s). International Journal of Cancer published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of UICC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
0068
Date Publish Online
2025-07-31