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This article published in the Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology provides a summary of the discussions of the 6^th European Roundtable Meeting to address the Quality of Cancer Care, “Improvement of cancer care in low to middle income countries by transfer of knowledge” organized in June 2019 by the German Cancer Society (DKG) and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC).
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This article provides an overview of opportunities to address cancer control in LMICs, with a focus on tobacco control, vaccination for cervical cancer, novel tools to assist with early detection, and screening for breast and other cancers.
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This article reports the evaluation of the prevalence and determinants of bacterial vaginosis (BV) in HIV-infected women from Maharashtra, India. Authors observed high prevalence of BV in HIV-infected women and increased risk of BV in HPV positive, HIV-infected women.
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This is the first publication presenting adjusted breast cancer screening positivity and detection rates across Europe using data from the Second EU Screening Report. We documented large variability by country in detection rates at subsequent screening tests, likely due to differences in background risk, awareness of the target populations, and different screening protocols and organization. Periodic reporting of performance indicators permits comparisons and monitoring of the impact of screening programmes in EU-Member States. View the article.

The screening group organized in collaboration with Silvana Luciana from PAHO a virtual webinar with representatives from 12 Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Peru) to discuss the implementation of the CanScreen5 project and to study the barriers to cancer screening in the region.

Dr Partha Basu and Catherine Sauvaget participated to the WHO meeting of the WHO-Guideline Development Group on “Cervical Cancer Screening Recommendations”.

Professor Matti Lehtinen of the Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (Helsinki, Finland) visited the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) on 3 March 2020 and presented a seminar on “Population-based trials on the safety, immunogenicity, efficacy and impact of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination.” Watch video.

The Screening Group is delighted to present the findings of this independent comparison of neutralizing and cross-neutralizing antibody levels with the bivalent and quadrivalent HPV vaccines in Finnish and Indian adolescent populations. The correlation of bivalent vaccine-induced HPV45 ab-levels with HPV16/18 ab-levels was stronger than that of corresponding quadrivalent vaccine-induced ab-levels, suggesting a qualitatively different cross-reactive response. These findings on the comparison of the immunogenicity of two HPV vaccine tested in two different populations indicate that further head-to-head studies are warranted. View the article.

Mrs Guigon, Master in health and social psychology, has recently joined the screening group at IARC as a fellow. Laureline will be involved in the CANelles project. This project aims to develop a social network in breast cancer screening in France to be used as a Shared Decision Making tool for both women at the age of joining the breast cancer screening programme and General Practitioners.

The Screening Group (SCR) team participated in meetings with representative of the Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Albert Einstein and the Einstein Friends of Oncology and Hematology (AMIGOH) to discuss mutual collaboration in areas of cancer prevention, screening, artificial intelligence, big data, development of Latin American Code Against Cancer and training opportunities.