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July 2025 Table of Contents Newsletter EUCanScreen July 2025 Project Updates Improving Cancer Screening for People with Intellectual Disabilities Defining a Framework for Risk-Based Screening Modelling
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Recruitment Strategies for Lung Cancer Screening: An Umbrella Review Protocol
JULY 2025 Project Updates Recruitment Strategies for Lung Cancer Screening: An Umbrella Review Protocol A newly published protocol outlines the methodology for an umbrella review investigating recruitment strategies for lung cancer screening (LCS). The study, supported by the EUCanScreen programme, aims to identify effective, evidence-based approaches to improve participation in LCS across Europe—particularly among
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Risk-Based Breast Cancer Screening: Insights from the EUCanScreen Delphi and Systematic Review
JULY 2025 Community Engagement & Feedback Risk-Based Breast Cancer Screening: Insights from the EUCanScreen Delphi and Systematic Review WP9.5 has achieved its goals and is preparing 2 publications and has submitted 3 conference abstracts on the matter. Risk-based breast cancer screening (RBBCS) is an emerging approach aimed at tailoring screening strategies to individual
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GISCi 2025: Advancing Risk-Based Approaches in Cancer Screening
JULY 2025 Upcoming Events & Opportunities GISCi 2025: Advancing Risk-Based Approaches in Cancer Screening 📍Turin, 2–3 October 2025 The GISCi National Conference (Italian Group for Cervical Cancer Screening) will take place in Turin on 2 and 3 October 2025. The scientific program will address key challenges and innovations in cancer screening programs, with
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Improving Cancer Screening for People with Intellectual Disabilities
JULY 2025 Project Updates Improving Cancer Screening for People with Intellectual Disabilities People with intellectual disabilities (ID) face significant barriers in accessing organised cancer screening across Europe. Task 6.5 of EUCanScreen addresses this inequity by identifying data gaps, reviewing existing evidence, and highlighting best practices to improve participation. “This work is critical” says
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Defining a Framework for Risk-Based Screening
JULY 2025 Project Updates Defining a Framework for Risk-Based Screening The European Council recommendations on cancer screening propose risk stratification, when appropriate, as a strategy to improve the balance between desirable and undesirable screening effects: benefits occurs in those who have or will have the disease, thus are proportional to risk, while
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EUCanScreen GAB: First Meeting in Turin
JULY 2025 Project Updates Community Engagement & Feedback EUCanScreen GAB: First Meeting in Turin People with intellectual disabilities (ID) face significant barriers in accessing organised cancer screening across Europe. Task 6.5 of EUCanScreen addresses this inequity by identifying data gaps, reviewing existing evidence, and highlighting best practices to improve participation. “This work is critical,” says
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PERCH General Assembly, Rome, June 12–13
JULY 2025 Featured Research/ Findings PERCH General Assembly, Rome, June 12–13 On 12–13 June, the General Assembly – Final Meeting of the EU4Health-funded project “The PartnERship to Contrast HPV (PERCH)” took place in Rome at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Senior expert from the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, Daniela Kállayová,
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Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT: a practical approach WP11
JULY 2025 Featured Research/ Findings Lung Cancer Screening with low-dose CT: a practical approach WP11 As part of WP11.6, a training on low-dose CT scans was conducted at the National Korányi Institute for Pulmonology in Budapest, Hungary. Two radiologists from Slovakia participated on this workshop: MUDr. Nehajová Marianna, University Hospital, Martin, Department of
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Modelling to optimize cancer screening across Europe WP10
JULY 2025 Project Updates Modelling to optimize cancer screening across Europe WP10 We’re pleased to share a progress update from Work Package 10, which focuses on using modelling and health technology assessment to optimize cancer screening programmes across Europe. Countries participating in WP10 have been actively collecting data on cancer incidence, mortality, and where
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