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 live course, participants must register to the course, login to the e-ESO platform on the date of the event and click on the play button close to LIVE STREAMING inside the course programme. To access the on-demand materials (after the live streaming), participants must register to the course, login to the e-ESO platform and click on the play buttons inside the course programme.
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
Expert:
Bernard Srour, FR
Myths about diet and cancer
Expert:
Kostas Tsilidis, UK
Case study: Campaigning to protect people from getting skin cancer
Chair:
Brian Køster, DK
Vaccinations
04/06/2025
The importance of vaccinations in reducing premature deaths
Chairs:
Ugo Pastorino, IT - Joachim Schuz, FR
Vaccination against HPV: boosting coverage and tackling misinformation
Expert:
Janne Villemoes Bigaard, DK
Panel Discussion Primary Prevention and Vaccinations
04/06/2025
Experts:
Janne Villemoes Bigaard, DK - Brian Køster, DK - Isabelle Soerjomataram, FR - Bernard Srour, FR - Kostas Tsilidis, UK
Chairs:
Ugo Pastorino, IT - Joachim Schuz, FR
Break
04/06/2025
Secondary Prevention and Screening Policies
04/06/2025
EU Cancer Burden and Principles of Screening
Expert:
Partha Basu, FR
Why certain cancers are better for screening
Expert:
Esther Toes-Zoutendijk, NL
Early Detection and Driver Interception: Expanding from Screening to Multicancer Testing
Expert:
Adriana Albini, IT
Screening Practices
04/06/2025
Programmes for colorectal cancer (history, where we are)
Expert:
Nereo Segnan, IT
Lung cancer: practice of screening
Expert:
David Baldwin, UK
Panel Discussion - Secondary Prevention and Screening Practices
04/06/2025
Experts:
Adriana Albini, IT - David Baldwin, UK - Partha Basu, FR - Nereo Segnan, IT - Esther Toes-Zoutendijk, NL
Chairs:
Ugo Pastorino, IT - Joachim Schuz, FR
Take home messages and closing remarks
04/06/2025
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 - Reference Center for Epidemiology and Oncological Prevention in Piedmont,
Turin,
Italy
Isabelle Soerjomataram
Deputy Head Cancer Surveillance Branch,
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC),
Lyon,
France
Bernard Srour
Junior Professor of Epidemiology; Coordinator,
National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) - CRESS; NACRe (Nutrition and Cancer Research) Network,
Paris,
France
Esther Toes-Zoutendijk
Assistant Professor; Epidemiologist,
Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Department of Public Health,
Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
Kostas Tsilidis
Reader in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention,
Imperial College London,
London,
United Kingdom
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