Thank you for an unforgettable event – moving things forward on better CRC screening across the EU and beyond
The 2021 edition of this event held on November 30 proved to be another unmissable session for the digestive cancers community, bringing together the key CRC screening groups to discuss the importance and practicalities of having population based screening practices implemented across Europe – programmes that are proven to save lives!
Download the Summit Report, or access the event recordings through the agenda below.
You can read the outcomes of last year’s CRC Screening Summit on this page.
AGENDA AND VIDEOS
| Time | Speaker | Title | Topic |
| 9:00 |
Zorana Maravic Iga Rawicka |
CEO, Digestive Cancers Europe Acting Chair of the Board, Digestive Cancers Europe |
Welcome |
| 9:10 | Stella Kyriakides | Commissioner for Health, European Commission | Video opening |
| 9:15 | Samo Podgornik | Patient Representative, Slovenia |
The importance of good CRC screening: the patient perspective |
| 9:20 | Dr. Dominika Novak Mlakar | Head of CRC Screening Programme, Slovenia |
Panel 1: Designing and building an effective and robust CRC screening programme |
| 9:30 |
Dr. Carlo Senore
Prof Tomas Poškus |
Piedmont Region Cancer Prevention Centre, University hospital Città della Salute e della Scienza, Italy
Professor of Surgery of Vilnius University and Member of the coordination committee of colorectal cancer screening program, Lithuania |
Country perspectives Panel 1 discussion moderated by Tamsin Rose |
| 10:05 | BREAK | ||
| 10:20 | Dr. Iris Lansdorp-Vogelaar | Associate Professor at the Department of Public Health of Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, and representing EU-TOPIA. |
Panel 2: CRC screening – Lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic |
| 10:30 |
Iris Seriese
Dr Tytti Sarkeala Dr Maria Isabel Portillo Villares Prof. Dr. Eric Van Cutsem |
Manager National Colorectal Cancer Screening Program, the Netherlands Director of Screening, PhD Finnish Cancer Registry Finland Coordinator Colorectal Cancer Screening Programme, Basque Region, Spain Head of Digestive Oncology, Leuven University Hospital, Belgium and Member of the Board of Digestive Cancers Europe |
Country perspectives Panel 2 discussion moderated by Tamsin Rose
|
| 11:05 | Dr. Partha Basu | Head Screening Group, The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) |
Panel 3: Making CRC screening work across the Europe – What needs to be done? |
| 11:15 |
Prof. Luigi Ricciardiello John F. Ryan Dr. Tit Albreht |
Chair, Research Committee, United European Gastroenterology Director of Public Health DG SANTE, European Commission Head of the Centre for Health Care at the National Institute of Public Health of Slovenia |
Panel 3 & discussion moderated by Tamsin Rose |
| 11:50 | Zorana Maravic | CEO, Digestive Cancers Europe |
The role of patient organisations and citizen groups in shaping the way forward |
| 12:00 | Tamsin Rose | Conclusion | |
| 12:10 | END | ||
