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.
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NewsActivity: Secondary prevention
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 (...)
On 7 april 2014 the training course “Update and training for colposcopists involved in II level of cervical cancer screening: starting of the new regional programme with HPV test as primary screening test” was held in Turin, at the Aula Rossa of the S. Anna Hospital (A.O.U. Città della Salute e delle Scienza di Torino).
It is available on this site the Protocol of the international survey on the detection and management of screen-detected DCIS of the breast, conducted within the International Cancer Screening Network (ICSN) (co-ordinators: Antonio Ponti, Stephen Taplin)
The annual workshop of the regional cervical cancer screening programme has been held on November 21th in Turin. See the scientific programme and the presentations.
The annual workshop of the regional colorectal screening programme has been held on November 13th in Turin. See the scientific programme and the presentations.
The annual workshop of the regional mammography screening programme has been held on November 7th in Turin. See the scientific programme and the presentations.
Primary screening for HPV provides 60-70% greater protection against invasive cervical cancer than the cytology-based screening, according to a pooled analysis already published in The Lancet.
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The slides of the training course "La displasia cervicale: follow up… follow up… follow up…" held in Turin on 17th June are now available.
The annual workshop of the regional mammography screening programme has been held on November 14th in Turin. See the scientific programme and the presentations.