Dr. R. Sankaranarayanan

Director, Preventive Oncology

Rengaswamy Sankaranarayananwas the former Chief of the Cancer Screening Group, Early Detection & Prevention Section and Special Advisor on Cancer Control at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France. He has a MD degree in Radiation oncology followed by post doctoral training in Pittsburgh and Cambridge. After several years of experience in clinical oncology and cancer control in India, Dr Sankaranarayanan joined the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in 1993. Currently he is serving as a Senior Visiting Scientist at WHO-IARC in Lyon, France. He advises Governments of Tamil Nadu, Kerala in India and several Latin American, Middle-Eastern, South and East Asian and African Governments on cancer prevention, early detection, control and development of efficient, accessible and affordable cancer health services. He is an author in more than 260 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and his manuals on early detection of cervical cancer have been translated into several languages including Chinese, French, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Turkish among others