General Information

Introduction

IARC, as a sponsor of research as well as a practitioner, has a duty to show leadership in ensuring that its studies are beyond ethical reproach. The major role of IARC in ethical appraisal is thus as the final common path for assurance to the international community that whatever constitutes ethical approval, transparently demonstrates the fundamental principles of doing no harm, respect, beneficence and justice. IARC is the guarantor of protection for study participants by its insistence on internationally consistent and complete ethical review of research.