CCI4EU (Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures for the European Union) is a European project aiming to help Member States and Associated Countries improve or develop their existing or future Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures (CCIs), by helping develop their research & innovation-related capacities.
This course is one of 10 online training courses organised within the project to help countries develop an effective comprehensive infrastructure and widen the reach of this grant. The topic of this online course is Early Cancer Detection, Screening, and Prevention.
The aim of the course is to inform CCIs about current approaches to cancer detection, screening, and prevention practices.
Target audience Directors, managers and coordinators at hospitals/clinics/CCIs, clinicians, researchers, nurses, patients advocates
Course delivery
This online course will be held live on 4 June from 12.30-16.40 (CEST) via this webpage. The entire course will be recorded and will remain available as on-demand material. To access the course, participants must register and login to the e-ESO platform on the date of the event.
Official language
The course will be held in English. Translations will not be provided. During the live streaming, Zoom subtitles will be available in all languages.
Registration
Registration to the course is free but mandatory. Registration will be confirmed by e-mail.
Certificate of attendance
Participants (both live and on-demand) will be issued a certificate of attendance once they have completed a minimum attendance of 75% of the entire course. An online evaluation questionnaire must be completed in order to receive the certificate that will be issued by email. The evaluation questionnaire will appear in the right-hand column of the course page when participants have completed the course.
Overview of European cancer burden and preventable cancers
Expert:
Isabelle Soerjomataram, FR
Diet and cancer: what is a healthy diet
Myths about diet and cancer
Expert:
Kostas Tsilidis, UK
Case study: Campaigning to protect people from getting skin cancer
Chair:
Brian Køster, DK
Panelist Discussion
Experts:
Brian Køster, DK - Isabelle Soerjomataram, FR - Kostas Tsilidis, UK
Chairs:
Ugo Pastorino, IT - Joachim Schuz, FR
Vaccinations
04/06/2025 13:50 CEST
The importance of vaccinations in reducing premature deaths
Vaccination against HPV: boosting coverage and tackling misinformation
Expert:
Janne Villemoes Bigaard, DK
Panelist Discussion
Expert:
Janne Villemoes Bigaard, DK
Chairs:
Ugo Pastorino, IT - Joachim Schuz, FR
Break
04/06/2025 14:30 CEST
Secondary Prevention
04/06/2025 14:40 CEST
EU Cancer Burden and Principles of Screening
Expert:
Partha Basu, FR
Why certain cancers are better for screening
Early Detection and Driver Interception: Expanding from Screening to Multicancer Testing
Expert:
Adriana Albini, IT
Panelist Discussion
Experts:
Adriana Albini, IT - Partha Basu, FR
Chairs:
Ugo Pastorino, IT - Joachim Schuz, FR
Screening Practices
04/06/2025 15:40 CEST
Programmes for colorectal cancer (history, where we are)
Expert:
Nereo Segnan, IT
Lung cancer: practice of screening
Expert:
David Baldwin, UK
Panelist Discussion
Experts:
David Baldwin, UK - Nereo Segnan, IT
Chairs:
Ugo Pastorino, IT - Joachim Schuz, FR
Take home messages and closing remarks
04/06/2025 16:25 CEST
Chairs:
Ugo Pastorino, IT - Joachim Schuz, FR
Adriana Albini
IEO - European Institute of Oncology IRCCS,
Milan,
Italy
David Baldwin
Consultant Respiratory Physician; Honorary Professor of Medicine,
Nottingham University Hospitals; University of Nottingham,
Nottingham,
United Kingdom
Partha Basu
Head, Early Detection, Prevention & Infections Branch,
International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO),
Lyon,
France
Janne Villemoes Bigaard
Executive project manager, PHD, Consultant in breast surgery,
Danish Cancer Society,
Copenhagen,
Denmark
Brian Køster
Senior Researcher Cancer Prevention and Information,
Danish Cancer Society,
Copenhagen,
Denmark
Ugo Pastorino
Director of Thoracic Surgery,
Fondazione IRCCS, Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori,
Milan,
Italy
Joachim Schuz
AIRC - International Agency for Research on Cancer,
Lyon,
France
Nereo Segnan
Past Director,
CPO Piemonte,
Turin,
Italy
Isabelle Soerjomataram
Deputy Head Cancer Surveillance Branch,
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC),
Lyon,
France
Kostas Tsilidis
Reader in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention,
Imperial College London,
London,
United Kingdom
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