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Francis Okoye, CNS Correspondent, Nigeria (First published in Nigeria Politics Magazine ) In a webinar organised for the media by Citizen News Service, titled ‘Are we on track to reduce breast cancer deaths by 1/3 by 2030?’ medical experts and breast cancer survivors shared their views on how to reduce deaths from this dreaded cancer. The panel of experts and cancer survivors included Priya Kanayson, Advocacy Officer, NCD Alliance ; Dr Pooja Ramakant, Associate Professor, Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery, King George Medical University ; Prof Anand Mishra, Head of Department of Endocrine and Breast surgery, KGMU; and Bret Miller, Founder, Male Breast Cancer Coalition and a breast cancer survivor himself. According to Priya Kanayson , “Breast cancer is the most common killer cancer in women. Men can develop breast cancer too, even though only less than 1% of all breast cancers occur in men. Unless urgent measures are taken, an estimated 19.7 million cases of breast cancer w...

Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS [ Read presentation of Prof Jeff Collin ] Governments of over 180 countries that have ratified the global tobacco treaty had met recently earlier this month and adopted and advanced strong measures to stop tobacco industry interference in health policy and also to hold tobacco industry liable.The meeting formally called the Seventh Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) concluded with commendable progress on WHO FCTC Articles 5.3 and 19 (liability). In this context, I find it pertinent to share some of the learnings from the 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health that was held in Liverpool last month. Reality check on policy coherence Dr Jeff Collin , Professor of Global Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh, gave some interesting insights by exploring the dark nexus between industry and public health policies; and raised the issue of tackling conflict of interes...