NewsActivity: Secondary prevention

Massimo Gion, scientific director of the Center for the Study of Regional Specialized Biochemical Indicators of cancer of the Veneto Region and a member of the Italian Network for Quality Assessment of Tumor biomarkers, will held a seminar on the appropriateness of biomarkers June 12 (...)

On June 8 in Turin, Silvia Franceschi, special advisor of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, will give a talk on “Thyroid cancer: case or diagnosis epidemic?” (...)

The World Health Organization published the "World Health Statistics 2015" that represent the official source and annually updated information on the world population health (...)

The evaluation of the policies of reorganization of regional health systems will be the central theme of the Spring Conference of the Italian Association of Epidemiology held in Florence on May 25 to 26 (...)

The educational material of the “Aggiornamento e formazione per colposcopisti del 2° livello screening per il cervicocarcinoma con l’avvio del nuovo programma regionale e l’utilizzo del test HPV come test primario”, addressed to personnel involved in the cervical cancer screening programme Prevenzione Serena, held in Turin on 30 March 2015, is available online (...)

The CPO Piemonte with the Italian Observatory on Screening, together with GISCoR, ISPO and the Fondazione del Piemonte per l'Oncologia, will present results from the PROTEUS study (Turin) and the SAVE study (Florence) during the workshop that will take place in Turin, March, 26-27 (...)

Available online material presented at the annual conference of the National Screening Observatory, held in Perugia in late January (...)

Proteus Donna study,  thanks to which it will be possible to compare tomosynthesis with traditional digital mammography, is in the starting up phase under the Prevenzione Serena programme (...)

Largely positive balance for the colorectal screening programme in its first decade of secondary prevention of colorectal cancer activity (...)

Prevenzione Serena programme started to use in Piedmont HPV test as primary test for the cervical cancer screening in place of traditional Pap test (...)

The educational material of the workshop "Programma regionale di screening mammografico Prevenzione Serena", held on December, 3, 2014 in Turin, is available online (...)

The annual meeting of the Breast Screening Italian Group will take place in Reggio Emilia on May, 6-8, 2015 (...)

The annual meeting of the Cervical Screening Italian Group will take place in Finalborgo on May, 21-22- 2015 (...)

The workshop about mammography Prevenzione Serena screening program took place in Turin on December, 3, 2014 (...)

Slides of the workshop "Programma regionale di screening per il cervicocarcinoma Prevenzione Serena", that took place in Turin on November, 3, 2014, are now available online (...)

The meeting "I programmi di screening  oncologico della regione Toscana: situazione attuale e propsoettive" took place in Florence on December, 19 (...)

The Annual Report 2013 on the cancer screening programs of Piedmont Region "Prevenzione Serena" has already been published. The report presents the results of the 2012 activity for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening and describes some issues relating to organization, quality, innovation and communication. 

The educational material of the course "HPV testing as a primary screening test", addressed to midwives involved in the cervical cancer screening programme "Prevenzione Serena", is available online (...)

Last May the World Health Organization designated the Piedmont Reference Center for Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention as Collaborating Centre for early detection and screening of cancer (...)