Individual statement to the WHO’s 156th Executive Board meeting on agenda item 14: Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health.
Delivered February 2025.
Individual statement to the WHO’s 156th Executive Board meeting on agenda item 24.3: Global Strategies or action plans that are scheduled to expire within one year. Supported by World Obesity Federation.
Delivered February 2025.
This factsheet outlines how our Recommendation for mothers to breastfeed their babies can be rolled out at a population level. It expands advice in our Policy blueprint for cancer prevention, which combines evidence on cancer risk – our Cancer Prevention Recommendations – with policy advice for population-level prevention.
Published January 2025.

Our Policy blueprint for cancer prevention brings together World Cancer Research Fund’s expert Cancer Prevention Recommendations with population-level policy advice. It outlines a package of policy recommendations to promote healthy diets and weight, support breastfeeding, increase physical activity, and reduce alcohol consumption. Its goal is to prevent cancer and support healthier environments for people living with and beyond a diagnosis.
Published January 2025.
The breast cancer report and systematic literature review were published in 2017 and revised in 2018.
Read the full chapter and toolkit on the links between lactation and cancer from our Third Expert Report in 2018