NewsYear: 2015Activity: Secondary prevention

Women in Piemonte, among the first in Italy to have had access to a program for the prevention of breast cancer, will rely more and more on customized screening and technologically innovative strategies (...)

Screening for cervical cancer with the HPV test it is going to gradually replace the traditional Pap test, putting Piemonte region at the forefront in terms of secondary prevention of cervical cancer (...)

The annual workshop of the CPO Piemonte is an opportunity both to review the experience of the activity and to outline future goals that enable to maintain the quality standards always pursued within the regional program Prevenzione Serena (...)

Slides of the workshop "Programma regionale di screening per il cervicocarcinoma Prevenzione Serena", that took place in Turin on December, 2, 2015, are now available online (...)

Event in Turin, on 1 December, to take stock of the regional data of the PNE 2015 (...)

Slides of the workshop "Programma regionale di screening per il cervicocarcinoma Prevenzione Serena", that took place in Turin on November, 23, 2015, are now available online (...)

The usual annual workshops addressed to operators of regional screening program Prevenzione Serena will be held in Turin at the beginning of November. Programs are online (...)

The V annual edition of the report "The numbers of cancer in Italy", published by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology and the Italian Association of Cancer Registries, provides epidemiological measures and clinical interpretations of interest both for operators and for users of the National Health System (…)

The XXXIX Congress of the Italian Association of Epidemiology is scheduled in Milan October 28 to 30. Main theme this year will be the combination of diet and health (...)

Half a century ago came the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the intergovernmental agency of the World Health Organization, which, among other tasks, establishes guidelines on the classification of the relative risk for cancers of chemical and physical agents.The book published to mark the 50th IARC anniversary is now available online (...)

The eleventh Annual Report of the National Screening Observatory, produced in collaboration with scientific societies GISMa, GISCoR and GISCI, has been published online (...)

The Authority for the protection of the personal data launches new guidelines on electronic patient dossier, for the protection of patient data within a single frame of reference and homogeneous (...)

June 16, 1995, the Regional Council deliberated the establishment of the Reference Centre for Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention in Piedmont. Benedetto Terracini traces with us the fertile period that led to the birth of the CPO (...)

The Regional Council has just approved the new Regional Plan for Prevention for the years 2015-2018. The next operating step, declined in the area, will be the Local plans of prevention that Local Health Authorities are called to adopt by mid-July (...)

The annual report 2014 on the cancer screening programs of Piedmont Region has already been published. The report presents results of the 2013 activity and preliminary data of the 2014 activity for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening (...)

Massimo Gion, scientific director of the Center for the Study of Regional Specialized Biochemical Indicators of cancer of the Veneto Region and a member of the Italian Network for Quality Assessment of Tumor biomarkers, will held a seminar on the appropriateness of biomarkers June 12 (...)

On June 8 in Turin, Silvia Franceschi, special advisor of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, will give a talk on “Thyroid cancer: case or diagnosis epidemic?” (...)

The World Health Organization published the "World Health Statistics 2015" that represent the official source and annually updated information on the world population health (...)