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Elisabete Weiderpass is the director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer and her message is clear: it's not enough to detect and treat; it's urgent to protect and prevent.

Two-thirds of people who have cancer no longer die from cancer, but there won't be a vaccine, so screening, prevention, control, and information should be the focus.

Two-thirds of people with cancer survive, meaning that only one in three dies from the disease.

The pathologist, who won the Pessoa Prize in 2002, was speaking about the fifth edition of the "Tratar o cancro por tu" cycle.

Manuel Sobrinho Simões further explains that there is no prospect of a vaccine being developed, so screening and prevention remain important.

Two-thirds of people who have cancer no longer die from cancer, but there won't be a vaccine, so screening, prevention, control, and information should be the focus.

Manuel Sobrinho Simões, the pathologist who won the Pessoa Prize in 2002, says that “we cannot speak of a cure, but we can speak of control.