NewsCategory: Activity: Secondary prevention

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 educational material of the “Aggiornamento e formazione per colposcopisti del 2° livello screening per il cervicocarcinoma con l’avvio del nuovo programma regionale e l’utilizzo del test HPV come test primario”, addressed to personnel involved in the cervical cancer screening programme Prevenzione Serena, held in Turin on 30 March 2015, is available online (...)

The educational material of the course "HPV testing as a primary screening test", addressed to midwives involved in the cervical cancer screening programme "Prevenzione Serena", is available online (...)

On 7 april 2014 the training course “Update and training for colposcopists involved in II level of cervical cancer screening: starting of the new regional programme with HPV test as primary screening test”  was held in Turin, at the Aula Rossa of the S. Anna Hospital (A.O.U. Città della Salute e delle Scienza di Torino).

The slides of the training course "La displasia cervicale: follow up… follow up… follow up…" held in Turin on 17th June are now available.

This course, mainly addressed to operators within screening Departments in Piedmont, showed the Service functionalities: a project for facilitating impact and process evaluation of regional screening programmes.

The Service has been designed to help reaching the maximum level of completeness for data collected within all screening Departments. This aim is pursued by promoting interaction among Units for screening organisation and evaluation (UVOS) based in each Department. Whereas the CPO supplies methodological and organisational assistance in order to optimize data collection and analysis.
The Service is now working for breast cancer screening and for cervical cancer screening, and it is under construction for colorectal cancer screening.