NewsYear: 2017Activity: Secondary prevention

Slides of the workshop "Programma regionale di screening colorettale Prevenzione Serena", that took place in Turin on December, 11, 2017, are now available online (...)

Slides of the workshop "Programma regionale di screening per il tumore della mammella Prevenzione Serena", that took place in Turin on December, 6, 2017, are now available online (...)

Slides of the workshop "Programma regionale di screening per il cervicocarcinoma Prevenzione Serena", that took place in Turin on November, 29, 2017, are now available online (...)

Now in its seventh annual edition, the report published by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology and the Italian Cancer Registries provides epidemiological data and clinical interpretations of interest both for operators and for users of Health (...)

A series of training sessions will be held in November by the Virtual Health Library of Piedmont and addressed to the staff of Regional Health Professionals. The locations are Turin and Biella (...)

The Annual Meeting of the Italian Association of Epidemiology is scheduled in Mantua from 25 to 27 October. Sharing research and action experiences, with particular regard to the issues of communication, transparency and citizen engagement, will be at the center of the debate (...)

The objective of "Donna Informata", a national project funded by the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC) and promoted by Milan's IRCCS Mario Negri, is to evaluate the effectiveness of a web-based tool in promoting a conscious choice of mammographic screening (...)

The new website of the International Agency for Research on Cancer Screening Group is available online, offering insights and updates dedicated to the numerous international projects underway on secondary prevention, with a focus on low and middle income countries (...)

Evaluate and improve the public health actions envisaged by the Prevention Plan through the adoption of standardized, accurate and ethically unsuitable procedures. This is the objective of audit by Local Health Care Companies whose guidelines have recently been established by the Piedmont Region (...)

The call for abstract of the XLI Congress of the Italian Epidemiology Association will be open until July 24, scheduled to be held in Mantova from 25 to 27 October. In order to ensure that auditors have adequate timing of evaluation, the expiry date can not be extended (...)

The new Report on Secondary Prevention in Italy is available on the National Screening Observatory website, updated in 2016. The document is presented in a completely renewed form that allows faster updates and easier consultations (...)

Adriano Giacomin, founder and director of the Cancer registry of the province of Biella, has died. We are deeply saddened by the loss of a colleague selfless and competent, and a friend always ready to instill confidence and enthusiasm (...)

The book "40 Years of Health in Turin. Ideas for reading needs and the results of policies", by Giuseppe Costa, Morena Stroscia, Nicolás Zengarini and Moreno Demaria, has just been published. The book can be downloaded for free from the Epidemiology & Prevention website (...)

The "European Guide on Quality Improvement for Comprehensive Cancer Control", just published by CanCon, joint European action on cancer, aims to provide recommendations on how to increase tumor control actions in the Old Continent (...)

The new report of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, realized in collaboration with the CPO Piemonte, dedicated to screening programs in the European Union for the prevention of breast, cervical and colorectal cancer, has just been published (...)

The Piedmont Region has renewed until 31 December this year, the convention on the projects, inserted under the program "Prevenzione Serena" and conducted by the CPO Piemonte, "Proteus woman" and "screening Experimentation DBT" (...)