LECTURE SERIES – THEME 2023-2024: CANCER

Epidemiology & Prevention

Designed to foster an interdisciplinary, technical-scientific dialogue on the epidemiology and prevention, mortality, and survival projections, risk factors, screening, care measures, related developments in research and other relevant topics, renowned international keynote speakers will deliver high-level lectures.

*For exact time and location, please refer to upcoming individual lecture poster

Upcoming events

24.10.2024 – Prof Beatrice Melin

Prof Beatrice
Melin

Professor of Oncology, Umeå University,
Director of Research Development and Innovation,
Umeå University Hospital.

🇬🇧 UNDERSTANDING GLIOMA DEVELOPMENT – PREDIAGNOSTIC BIOMARKER ANALYSES

Learn about how Prof Melin and her group have systematically collected large sets of cases and controls and collaborated with researchers in US and Europe to establish robust risk factors for glioma.

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26.09.2024 – Dr Eva Steliarova-Foucher

Dr Eva
Steliarova-Foucher

Scientist

🇬🇧 BUILDING KNOWLEDGE ON CHILDHOOD CANCER THROUGH COLLABORATION OF CANCER REGISTRIES

In this lecture, Dr Eva Steliarova-Foucher will exemplify use of registry data to generate knowledge and discuss the potential of registries to contribute to future childhood cancer research.

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27.06.2024 – Dr Talita Duarte

Dr Talita
Duarte Salles

Assistant Professor

🇬🇧 REAL WORLD DATA FOR REAL WORLD EVIDENCE IN CANCER

Dr Duarte Salles will describe the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model used to perform standardized analytics, the EHDEN initiative, and the DARWIN EU Coordinating Center for the European Medicines Agency with some examples of studies conducted in the field of oncology.

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23.05.2024 – Prof Ciaran O’Neill

Prof Ciaran
O’Neill

Professor of Health Economics

🇬🇧 The Economics of Cancer Screening and Services

Individual decisions around life style and screening can create path dependencies that constrain future clinical decisions around treatment. Understanding these relationships and the cost-benefit calculus that underpins them can help inform future cancer strategies, improve outcomes and reduce the cost of cancer for individuals and society.

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25.04.2024 – Prof Guy Launoy

Prof Guy
Launoy

Director of Interdisciplinary Research Unit for the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer U1086 „ANTICIPE“ INSERM

🇬🇧 Social inequalities in cancer incidence and survival.
Quantitative approaches in France and Europe.

Social inequalities in health are defined by the observation of a difference in health risk associated with an individual’s place in the community. The social determinants of health are man-made, dependent on the way society is organized, and can therefore be modified by collective decisions.

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21.02.2024 – Dr Isabelle Soerjomataram

Dr Isabelle
Soerjomataram

Deputy Head, Cancer Surveillance Branch at International Agency
for Research on Cancer / World Health Organization

🇬🇧 Women, power, and cancer

The lecture „Women, Power, and Cancer“ by Dr Isabelle Soerjomataram explores the complex relationship between women’s societal roles and their experiences with cancer, considering the various biases and discrimination they face based on factors like age, race, and socio-economic status.

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25.01.2024 – Dr Nicolò Battisti

Dr Nicolò
Battisti

President of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG)

🇬🇧 Geriatric oncology: Moving the needle towards an evidence-based precision approach for older adults with cancer

Cancer is a disease of ageing. Therefore, the management of older adults is a crucial part of the routine practice for the cancer workforce.

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07.12.2023 – Dr Andre Carvalho

Dr Andre
Carvalho

Deputy Head, Early Detection, Prevention & Infections Branch at International Agency for Research on Cancer / World Health Organization

🇬🇧 Principles of Organized Population-Based Cancer Screening

The lecture, “Principles of Organized Population-Based Cancer Screening,” presented by Dr. Andre Carvalho, will offer insights into the best practices for establishing and overseeing cancer screening programs.

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Claudine
Backes

Coordinator

Allini
Mafra

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Lecture:

1 A-B Rue Thomas Edison, 1445 Luxembourg
Salle Marie S. Curie & Salle Louis Pasteur

*For exact time and location, please refer to upcoming individual lecture poster

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