International Agency for Research on Cancer
The International organization for Research on Cancer IARC; French: Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer, CIRC is an intergovernmental agency forming part of a World Health Organization of the United Nations. Its role is to move and coordinate research into the causes of cancer. It also collects & publishes surveillance data regarding the occurrence of cancer worldwide.
Its IARC monographs programme identifies carcinogenic hazards & evaluates environmental causes of cancer in humans.
IARC has its own governing council, and in 1965 the first members were the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. Today, IARC's membership has grown to 27 countries.