The kick-off meeting of the EASY-NET network program officially started the project funded by the Ministry of Health and co-financed by the Regions of Piedmont, Lombardy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Calabria, Sicily.
The statistics on mesothelioma cases, pleural and peritoneal, occurring among the regional population between 1990 and 2016 were updated.
A new IARC publication highlights the great variations in cancer incidence, survival and mortality, which exist between countries and, within the same countries, between different social groups.
Every day 88 citizens of Piedmont receive a diagnosis of malignancy: identify them, follow the procedure, evaluate the outcomes of the therapies is the task of the Cancer Registry, active in Piedmont for over half a century. The slides of the Conference are online.
The materials produced during the final meeting of the Lifepath project, held on 26 and 27 March in Geneva, dedicated to investigate the link between socioeconomic status and health are online.
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The CPO, a quick overview
Since 1995 CPO Piemonte is the regional reference point for epidemiology and prevention in the oncology sector.
CPO is active in cancer registration, primary cancer prevention, cancer screening programmes, monitoring the quality of care for oncological patients and research on cancer etiology.
Since 2014 the WHO has identified the CPO as a Collaborative Center for Early Diagnosis and Cancer Screening.