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The Screening Group is delighted to share this editorial published in the French Bulletin Epidemiologique Hebdomadaire. Dr Catherine Sauvaget and Dr Elisabete Weiderpass discussed about the eradication of cervical cancer declared as a public health priority by WHO and the new strategies in place in France to attain this objective.
View the article published in French in the BEH and Le Monde.

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Alice Le Bonniec, PhD in health and social psychology, has recently joined the screening group at IARC as a postdoctoral fellow. Alice 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.

Dr Farida Selmouni conducted a field visit to Dakar to meet with the collaborators and discuss the progress of the Care4Afrique project: Implementation of a pilot cervical cancer screening programme based on a single-visit approach and improving capacity for breast cancer early diagnosis.

Mr Eric Lucas and Ms Sylvaine Barbier organized the first training session to introduce the REDCap framework including the platform and the IARC specific context in order to create, manage and report on data collection projects in clinical/epidemiological settings.

The Screening Group organized this training course in collaboration with the Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) to train 25 master trainers in colposcopy and management of the screen-positive women. Dr P. Basu, Dr R. Sankaranarayanan, Dr R. Mandal, Dr D. Banerjee and Dr M. Vernekar attended as a faculty members with a mixed of practical and theoretical sessions.

Dr Partha Basu and Dr R. Sankaranarayanan participated to a seminar jointly organized by the department of health and family welfare and CNCI: Roadmap to eliminate cervical cancer in West Bengala preparing for HPV vaccine introduction in presence of Dr Ajay Chakrabarty director of health services and Dr Debasis Bhattacharyya direcetor of medical education and Dr Jayanta Chakrabarti director of the CNCI.

Mr Eric Lucas and Ms Sylvaine Barbier organized this first training session to introduce the REDCap framework (Research Electronic Data Capture Software from Vanderbilt University) including the platform and the IARC specific context in order to create, manage and report surveys.

The Screening Group is delighted to present the findings of this study which aimed to evaluate the clinical performance of the OncoE6^TM Cervical test in detecting CIN among HIV-infected women in Bujumbura, Burundi. The current OncoE6 test proved to be a point-of-care test. However, given its poor performance for CIN2+ diagnoses, authors of the publication do not recommend it for primary screening.
View the article.

As part of the AICC RCOG Conference in Kolkata, a workshop on early detection of cervical and breast cancer prevention was organized by IARC and International Federation of Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy (IFCPC). Faculty included Dr. R. Sankaranarayanan, Dr Partha Basu, Dr Neerja Bhatla and Dr Theresa Freeman Wong.