At times one is asked to present the 10 most representative publications/achievements of one’s career. In our experience the selection is painful: how can you dismiss your fantastic 11th paper? How will the 10 selected papers be received? Now apply the same procedure to the accomplishments and contributions of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and you will soon realize why Rodolfo Saracci and Cristopher Wild have done a tremendous job in writing their book titled International Agency for Research on Cancer. The First 50 Years to mark, as the title suggests, the 50th anniversary since IARC was first established. The book is organized in three main sections: the first section is about the history of IARC from its foundation to the present day; the second section includes three chapters on research infrastructures and six chapters on IARC’s accomplishments on more specific prevention and research domains; and the last section is about the future. The book is enriched by the personal recollections of the protagonists of the IARC history and has several short boxes dealing with specific topics (see for example ‘Cancer is hundreds of different diseases’) and researchers (see for example ‘Lorenzo Tomatis, second IARC Director’).
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Richiardi et al. (2015) studied this question.