EUCanScreen

Implementation of cancer screening programmes (EUCanScreen)

[EUCanScreen @eucanscreen]

👋 Meet Gianluigi Ferrante from CPO Piemonte 🇮🇹 — WP5.

What motivates him: the idea that good data leads to better decisions — and ultimately better health outcomes. He turns complex information into clear evidence that helps improve the quality, effectiveness, and equity of cancer screening, so that prevention efforts truly reach the people who need them most.

What he enjoys most in EUCanScreen: collaborating with people from different countries and disciplines — sharing experiences, learning what works in different settings, and co-developing tools that strengthen screening across Europe.

What he always brings: a pragmatic, problem-solving mindset — connecting methods to real needs, focused on solutions that can actually be used in practice. 💜

#EUCanScreen #MeetThePeople #CancerScreening #DataForHealth #PublicHealth

🔗 LinkedIn: https://t.co/69FIHby23l

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🇱🇻 As EUCanScreen’s Screening Campaign Country for May, Latvia highlights a major achievement in digital cancer care.

The country has successfully implemented a unified oncology data exchange platform, enabling secure and real-time sharing of patient information between Latvia’s clinical university hospitals.

The initiative supports:

🔹 Better coordination of cancer care
🔹 Faster access to diagnostic and treatment information
🔹 Multidisciplinary decision-making across hospitals
🔹 Reduced waiting times and fewer repeated examinations
🔹 Improved continuity and quality of care for patients
Most importantly, this innovative solution creates, for the first time, a practical mechanism for real-time inter-hospital data exchange in oncology care, laying the foundation for future digital health developments across Latvia.
📖 Read more: https://t.co/Yk4nHbvAWK
#EUCanScreen #ScreeningCampaignCountry #Latvia #CancerScreening #CancerCare #DigitalHealth #Oncology #HealthData #EUHealth #EUCancerMission

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👋 Meet Maiju Pankakoski from the Cancer Society of Finland 🇫🇮 — Task Lead 5.4 in WP5.

What motivates her: improving cancer screening programmes can truly have a positive impact on society.

With access to rich, long-standing registry data for monitoring and researching Finland's cancer screening programmes she has built deep expertise — and now brings that to a European scale.

Her conviction: through collaboration, we can generate more comparable and timely evidence on cancer screening across countries. 📊

What she loves most in EUCanScreen: getting to know colleagues from different countries and learning about the variety of screening and healthcare systems across Europe. 💜

#EUCanScreen #MeetThePeople #CancerScreening #DataForHealth #PublicHealth

🔗 LinkedIn: https://t.co/KzuS9lFS36

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👋 Meet Maiju Pankakoski from the Cancer Society of Finland 🇫🇮 — Task Lead 5.4 in WP5.

What motivates her: improving cancer screening programmes can truly have a positive impact on society.

With access to rich, long-standing registry data for monitoring and researching Finland's cancer screening programmes she has built deep expertise — and now brings that to a European scale.

Her conviction: through collaboration, we can generate more comparable and timely evidence on cancer screening across countries. 📊

What she loves most in EUCanScreen: getting to know colleagues from different countries and learning about the variety of screening and healthcare systems across Europe. 💜

#EUCanScreen #MeetThePeople #CancerScreening #DataForHealth #PublicHealth

🔗 LinkedIn: https://t.co/KzuS9lFS36

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🎥 Strengthening cervical cancer prevention through expert training and international collaboration 🇪🇺

Healthcare professionals and internationally recognised colposcopy specialists gathered in Riga for a specialised “Training the trainers” course under #EUCanScreen.

The initiative focused on improving teaching, mentoring, and practical training skills to support high-quality and sustainable cervical cancer screening programmes across Europe. 👩‍⚕️📚

The course was coordinated by Ameli Trope from the Norwegian Cervical Cancer Screening Centre and featured leading experts including Assoc. Prof. Jana Zodzika and Cecilia Karrberg.

Participants from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Ukraine joined the training, strengthening regional cooperation in women’s health and cancer prevention 🤝

Watch the highlights 🎬👇
https://t.co/WSAQusAoyA

Read more on https://t.co/VcPTPTDzMB

#EUCanScreen #CervicalCancer #CancerScreening #Colposcopy #CancerPrevention #WomensHealth #MedicalEducation #Latvia #PublicHealth #EarlyDetection #HealthcareTraining

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👋 Meet Andre Carvalho, WP4 Co-Lead @EUCanScreen / @IARCWHO 🌍

"Inspired by the potential of cancer screening to prevent disease, reduce inequalities, decrease cancer mortality and improve population health at scale."

What he enjoys most in EUCanScreen: collaborating with colleagues from different countries and professional backgrounds — learning from diverse experiences, identifying common challenges, and developing solutions that work across different contexts. 💜

#EUCanScreen #CancerScreening #PublicHealth

🔗 LinkedIn: https://t.co/q25c5ZevLa

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📊 EUCanScreen milestone MS31 is now available, outlining the EHDS governance model, the proposed ELSI governance framework, and the HealthData@EU methodology for secure and harmonised cancer screening data use across Europe.

The report focuses on three core pillars:

🗂️ Mapping current heterogeneity in cancer screening data governance across Europe
⚖️ Developing an integrated Ethical, Legal and Societal Implications (ELSI) framework
🔐 Enabling secure federated analysis through the ASPIRE solution aligned with EHDS requirements

By “bringing the analysis to the data”, ASPIRE supports privacy-preserving collaboration and trusted cross-border data use for cancer screening.

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/1s3GUso4hz
📄 DOI publication: https://t.co/KnzV3hgIOL

#EUCanScreen #EHDS #HealthData #CancerScreening #PublicHealth #DataGovernance #CancerPrevention #EuropeanHealthDataSpace #euhealth
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👏Meet doc. dr. Urska Ivanus, MD, WP4 Lead at the Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Urska is a public health physician and researcher working at the intersection of cancer prevention, screening policy, quality assurance, and implementation. In EUCanScreen, she focuses on improving the sustainable implementation of impactful cancer screening programmes across the EU and empowering new generations of leaders in cancer screening.
What motivates her: the opportunity to make the world a little better — reducing suffering by preventing what is preventable. She feels fortunate working together with knowledgeable and wonderful colleagues from around the world, learning from one another, and growing along the way.
What she enjoys most: the collaboration with dedicated colleagues from across Europe — each bringing different experiences, perspectives, and expertise. Having the opportunity to learn from one another and to work together toward a shared goal: improving cancer screening for all Europeans.
What she always brings: a constructive and collaborative mindset, focused on practical solutions — and the persistence to never give up. She believes that meaningful progress is fueld by the vision and comes from listening carefully, connecting people and ideas, and focusing on evidence and practical solutions that can be implemented sustainably.
🔗 LinkedIn: https://t.co/tBpSfS0FNV
#EUCanScreen #MeetThePeople #CancerScreening #PublicHealth #EUHealth

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🧬 At the Baltic Congress of Laboratory Medicine, the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control of Latvia shared updates on Latvia’s progress in organized cervical and colorectal cancer screening programmes.

Key priorities include strengthening laboratory diagnostics, improving screening governance, and ensuring better patient pathways from testing to follow-up care.

A major focus is the development of a centralized invitation system and a national Cancer Screening Registry to improve participation and overall programme quality. 📊

📷Read More: https://t.co/sAaEC6GGV4
📷 Please Subscribe: https://t.co/o5yKlFxPFc

#eucanscreen #CancerScreening #PublicHealth #CancerPrevention

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👋 Meet Federica Rosin, Project Manager for the activities under the responsibility of ProMIS. 🇮🇹 — WP2 Communication & Dissemination.

What motivates her: contributing to stronger public health systems through European cooperation — supporting knowledge exchange and promoting equitable access to prevention and care.

What inspired her: the belief that only through genuine European cooperation and sharing of perspectives can we tackle common health challenges.

What she enjoys most: collaborating with Europe's leading screening experts — and ensuring citizens receive accurate, trustworthy information. Because misinformation in healthcare directly affects screening participation.

What she always brings: clear, evidence-based communication — and responsibility for the impact that information may have. 💜

#EUCanScreen #MeetThePeople #HealthLiteracy #CancerScreening #PublicHealth

🔗 LinkedIn: https://t.co/hrMOnzxtZO

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International Experts Discuss Improvements to Cancer Screening and Cancer Patient Care Systems in Latvia

On 12–13 May, international experts from the Erasmus University Medical Center @ErasmusMC in the Netherlands joined Latvian health authorities and oncology specialists to discuss improvements in cancer screening, early diagnosis, healthcare efficiency, and data-driven cancer care planning within the EU-supported LLUMINAS project. 🩺📊

LLUMINAS is a European Commission-supported project aimed at helping countries strengthen evidence-based and health economics modelling-driven decision-making in oncology.

Key discussions focused on:
🔹 Improving the governance and quality of the cancer screening system
🔹 Strengthening monitoring of screening quality and follow-up pathways after positive screening results
🔹 Developing digital solutions and cancer data systems 💻
🔹 Developing a state-organised cancer screening system
🔹 Modelling cancer treatment costs and assessing cost-effectiveness 📈
🔹 Advancing equal access to screening services across Latvia 🤝
🔹 Supporting the implementation of Latvia’s "Oncology Healthcare Improvement Plan 2025–2027"

The event was also attended by Professor Marcis Leja, Director of the Institute of Clinical and Preventive Medicine at the University of Latvia @lvuniversity , and Scientific Coordinator of EUCanScreen.

The discussions highlighted the importance of international cooperation in promoting evidence-based oncology policy in Latvia, early diagnosis, and more effective and sustainable cancer care systems solutions for the benefit of patients. 🌍
read more: https://t.co/T4i1z47TAE
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👋 Meet Apostolos Vantarakis from the University of Patras 🇬🇷 — Scientific Responsible of WP2 (Dissemination) and Task Leader in WP5.1 (Monitoring).

What motivates him: unlike clinical medicine where you help one patient at a time, public health can affect thousands or millions of people through a single policy, program, or intervention. To stop problems before they start. Addressing why some communities consistently have worse health outcomes, not just treating the downstream effects. Motivation often has to be renewed deliberately, through mentorship, mission alignment, or small visible victories, because the systemic obstacles are real.

What inspired him: witnessing health inequity firsthand —making community believe in prevention and curiosity about searching data and patterns.

What he enjoys most in EUCanScreen: the cross-pollination of perspectives of perspectives on a shared problem— The sense that the work matters at scale — recommendations and quality assurance frameworks developed in these joint actions often shape screening programs for hundreds of millions of people. Also, international cooperation with a very big and very specialized scientific team.

What he always brings: a population-level lens — asking "what's happening across the whole group?" That shift — from individual to population, from treatment to prevention — is the mental move he brings to almost every problem. 💜

#EUCanScreen #MeetThePeople #CancerScreening #PublicHealth #EuropeanResearch

🔗 LinkedIn: https://t.co/4zDZNdg1yl

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🇪🇺 Advancing the future of gastric cancer screening in Europe! 🎗️

On 11 May 2026, the Closing Consortium Meeting of the @Togas_euproject TOGAS (Towards Gastric Cancer Screening Implementation in the European Union) project took place at the @lvuniversity University of Latvia House of Science in Riga, bringing together partners from across Europe, representatives from DG SANTE, HaDEA and members of the External Advisory Board. 🤝

The meeting was opened by Marcis Leja, who welcomed participants and highlighted the project’s achievements and its important role within the broader European cancer screening landscape. 🇪🇺

Co-funded by the European Union and coordinated by the University of Latvia, TOGAS aims to reduce the burden of gastric cancer through innovative screening and early detection approaches. 🩺🔬

During the meeting, partners presented key findings from three pilot studies focused on:
🔹 H. pylori screen-and-treat strategies
🔹 Combined upper and lower gastrointestinal cancer screening
🔹 Long-term effects of H. pylori eradication

The discussions also explored:
📊 Cost-effectiveness of gastric cancer prevention
🗣️ Public and policymaker attitudes towards screening
💬 Patient-reported experiences
📑 Sustainable, evidence-based screening strategies aligned with European guidelines

The event concluded with the presentation of the upcoming TOGAS Plus project, introduced by Kateryna Priadko and Iveta Enina, highlighting the continued commitment to advancing gastric cancer screening across Europe. 🌍✨

👉 read more: https://t.co/JwtrJv4wf7

#TOGAS #EUCanScreen #Riga #UniversityOfLatvia #CancerScreening #GastricCancer #PublicHealth #CancerPrevention #EUCancerPlan

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🇱🇻 Strengthening Synergy: Latvian Partners Unite to Advance Cancer Screening Excellence 🎗️

On January 29, the RSU Anatomy Museum in Riga hosted a key meeting for the Latvian partners of the EUCanScreen Joint Action. 🤝

The event brought together representatives from Riga Stradins University, the University of Latvia, the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC), Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, and the Ministry of Health to strengthen cooperation in cancer screening development and policy planning. 🏥📊

Partners presented ongoing work focused on:
🔹 Improving accessibility and quality of cancer screening programmes
🔹 Strengthening communication and promoting informed choice
🔹 Developing evidence-based and personalised screening approaches
The collaboration between academia, healthcare providers, public health authorities and policymakers is essential for improving screening coverage and early diagnosis in Latvia. 🇪🇺
Together, we are building more resilient, sustainable and high-quality cancer screening systems for the people of Latvia and Europe. 🌍✨
#EUCanScreen #CancerScreening #PublicHealth #Latvia #CancerPrevention

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👋 Meet Yelena Tarasenko, WP1 Scientific Co-Lead @EUCanScreen 🇱🇻

"I bring a collaborative and solution-oriented mindset, focusing on keeping teams aligned, addressing challenges, and ensuring steady progress." 💜

#EUCanScreen #CancerScreening #PublicHealth

🔗 LinkedIn: https://t.co/lTNmEb3i0A

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🚨 Did you know? Colorectal cancer is rising among younger adults, yet awareness remains dangerously low.

A new feature from @whoeurope World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe highlights emerging research on early-onset colorectal cancer and the need to better understand changing risk factors and disease patterns

🔍 Key facts:
➡️ More than 1 in 10 colorectal cancer cases in the WHO European Region (2020) were due to alcohol – but less than 40% of Europeans know alcohol can cause this cancer. 🍷⚠️
➡️ Modifiable risks include obesity, processed meat, low fibre, inactivity, tobacco, and alcohol.
➡️ Young people are not considered high-risk – leading to delayed diagnosis and worse outcomes.

👉 read more: https://t.co/T4i1z47TAE

👉 direct link: https://t.co/KhOfldr4sy

#ColorectalCancer #CancerPrevention #CancerResearch #Screening #EUCanScreen #PublicHealth

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📊 Latvia is strengthening the evaluation of its national cancer screening programmes.

The Centre for Disease Prevention and Control of Latvia (CDPC) @SPKCentrs refined its indicator methodology for cervical, breast & colorectal cancer screening to better reflect available data and evolving data systems. 🇱🇻

The updated approach covers:
📩 Invitation & examination coverage
📈 Participation rates
🧪 Screening test result distribution
🔗 https://t.co/NoUtYRvt9Q
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