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UICC World Cancer Congress 2006

Bridging the Gap: Transforming Knowledge into Action

July 8-12, 2006, Washington, DC, USA



Sunday, 9 July 2006: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Meeting Room 5 (Renaissance Hotel)
The Tobacco Product: Cultivation, Composition and Cancer
Moderator:Shoba John (India)
1:30 PMKenyan Tobacco Peasants on the Periphery: Gender, Labour and Health Nexus Revisited
muniko zephaniah Marwa (Kenya)
1:45 PMTobacco Specific Nitrosamines in Nigerian Cigarettes
Sunday Ene-ojo Atawodi (Nigeria)
2:00 PMEpidemic Lung Cancer or Artifact of Classification
Tim E. Aldrich (USA), Beatrice Simo (USA), Ken Silver (USA)
2:15 PMIncrease in Taxation & Diversification of Tobacco Crops as an Effective Strategy(Reduced Price Elasticity) in Reducing Cigarettes Use & Morbidity/Mortality Outcomes in the Underdeveloped Communities of Pakistan
Ishaq M (Pakistan)
2:30 PMSmoking and cancer mortality in urban and rural India
Vendhan Gajalakshmi (India), Richard Peto

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