High-Level Workshop: European Cancer Pulse - Cancer Data against Cancer Inequalities

28 June 2023, 09:00-15:30

This workshop convened high-level experts:

• Alice Pisana and Corina Vasilescu (DG SANTE); Magdalena Stepien and Tony O’Grady (JRC); Miltos Pavlou (EU FRA) and Otto Visser (ENCR);
• Andre Ilbawi (WHO); Marilys Corbex (WHO Europe); Salvatore Vaccarella (IARC); Dheepa Rajan and Florian Tille (EOHSP) and Caroline Berchet (OECD);
• Andreas Charalambous (ECO and EONS); Mark Lawler (ECO and Queen’s University Belfast); Ajay Aggarwal (ESTRO); Wim Ceelen (ESSO) and Gilly Spurrier-Bernard (ECO Patient Advisory Committee);
• Sybil Green, Kelsey Kirkwood and Laura Levit (ASCO); Paolo Casali (EURACAN) and Raymond Gemen (EPHA)
• Thomas Hofmarcher (Swedish Institute of Health Economics) and Richard Sullivan (King’s College London)
• EU-funded projects: Ricardo Pietrobon, Veronica Coppini and Victor Galvão (BEACON); Peter Nagy and Eric Solary (4.UNCAN.eu)

The discussion focused on:

1. The future of cancer system performance;
2. Harmonisation of data collection: need for consensus on methodologies to collect data;
3. Research disparities: targeting not only patients’ behaviours but also policymakers;
4. Social inequalities: importance of having a consensus on how social inequalities are prioritised, agreeing on relevant indicators and upskilling the workforce to collect relevant data routinely.

A summary report of this workshop will be published soon.

 

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