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Dr Carolina Espina from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) will be chairing the dedicated workshop “Toward Europe Beating Cancer Plan goal of 80% awareness of the European Code Against Cancer in 2025”.

Dr Joachim Schüz from IARC, Dr Jérôme Foucaud from the Institut National du Cancer (INCa), and Mr David Ritchie from the Association of European Cancer Leagues (ECL) are invited as speakers to discuss how to achieve the 80% awareness goal and to improve cancer prevention literacy in general.

This workshop was part of the Cancer Core Europe (CCE) Summer School in Translational Cancer Research.

Registration is now open for the Cancer Core Europe (CCE) Summer School in Translational Cancer Research, on the afternoons of October 13-14, 2021.

Find out about the program and register for this virtual event at www.cancersummerschool.eu by October 8, 2021.

More information available here

More information available here

Dr Carolina Espina presented the European Code Against Cancer and highlighted the relevant roles of cancer nurses in prevention.

Recordings of the presentations are now available !

Session #1: New insights into causes of cancer and cancer prevention

Session #2: Cancer prevention in the light of global challenges & launch of the Cancer Prevention Europe Learning Centre

Session #3: Cancer prevention and the European Code against Cancer

Session #4: Medical cancer prevention: new evidence

Session #5: New developments in tertiary prevention

​Launch of the Cancer Prevention Europe (CPE) Learning Centre at the Cancer Prevention Europe 2021 Symposium.
Elements of the CPE Learning Centre, such as the first multilingual online learning programme on primary and secondary prevention of cancer, are hosted on the IARC Learning portal.