European Cancer Summit 2025 Selected Abstracts

Our experts have selected 19 abstracts for the European Cancer Summit 2025, each of them connected to our Focused Topic Networks and priority areas within Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan and the EU Cancer Mission recommendations.

To learn more about the Young Cancer Professionals (YCP) group, visit the dedicated webpage.

Three authors were also chosen to present during our session 'Presenting the top abstracts from ECO’s Young Cancer Professionals' session on Wednesday 19 November from 17:35-17:35-18:15 CET:

Severien Van Keer, Senior postdoctoral researcher FWO and Assistant Professor, University of Antwerp
Ellis Slotman, Postdoctoral Researcher, Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL)
Fairley Le Moal, Scientific Director, Seintinelles, France

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Amil Družić: Digital outreach and public health: Evaluating social media interventions on HPV-related cancers awareness and vaccine acceptance in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Ruth Gyereh Dogwul: Bioactivity of a novel peptide, QUB-2392 on acute myeloid leukaemia cell lines

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Peter Gordebeke: A pan-European infrastructure for trustworthy AI development in oncology: Cancer Image Europe

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Honja Hama: Co-developing the evaluation strategy for a patient-centred interprofessional training program in cancer care: A modified mixed-methods Delphi study within the INTERACT-EUROPE 100 project

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Meike van Harten: Towards feasible and effective prostate cancer screening: Initial insights from the PRAISE-U project

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Severien Van Keer: Increasing cervical cancer screening response by home-based urine or vaginal self-sampling: First results from the Flemish randomized controlled trial ScreenUrSelf

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Chloë Mbarushimana: Advancing telemedicine adoption into European cancer care through the joint actions eCAN and eCAN+

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Fairley Le Moal: Research engine: A participatory platform to foster science–society dialogue and inform research priorities in cancer research

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Emmanuel Mulube: Disparity between awareness and uptake of cervical cancer prevention services among Zambian women

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Hüseyin Örün: Explaining rare cancer survival gaps: A comparative policy review of six European countries

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Miles Payling: Evaluating the breadth of cancer diagnoses identified by the C the Signs clinical decision support platform in primary care

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Claire Poole: Barriers to radiation therapy access: A multistakeholder exploration across Europe

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Amirun Rahmat: Are we asking the right questions? Measuring health-related quality of life and experiences with healthcare satisfaction and communication among sexual and gender minority cancer patients: A mixed-methods systematic literature review

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Ariwan Saeed: Ethnic disparities in breast cancer outcomes in Europe: Data gaps and policy recommendations

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Ellis Slotman: Pain at the end of life in cancer patients: A population-based study on prevalence, relief and the role of pain assessment

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Alice Spencer: The impact of cancer on employment and income: Do coastal inequalities exist?

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Alberto Traverso: A scalable, governed, and transparent AI ecosystem for oncology: The S-RACE platform for high-quality real-world data research

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Paula Tur: Quality of life in patients with advanced cancer: Critical evaluation of EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL and the FACIT-PAL-14 in prospective studies

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Julia Winter: Predictive factors of long-term fatigue in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer

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