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[Podcast] World Cancer Day 2017


[Listen or download the audio podcast] This is a recording of the webinar in lead up to 2017 World Cancer Day (watch its recording). Panel of experts included:
  • Anne Jones OAM, senior tobacco control expert with the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (The Union); former CEO of ASH Australia; and Medal of the order of Australia (OAM) awardee   
  • Dr Navneet Singh, Lung cancer expert; Associate Professor, Pulmonary Medicine Department, PGIMER; Secretary of Indian Society for Study of Lung Cancer; 
  • Nita Mullick, cancer survivor and senior educationist  
  • Moderators: Ashok Ramsarup, award-winning senior journalist from Durban, South Africa and former Senior Producer at SABC; and 
  • Shobha Shukla, CNS Managing Editor 
 [Listen or download the audio podcast]

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