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Cancer represents a significant portion of the disease burden in Europe, much of which is preventable. The EUCanScreen project is designed to address this challenge by supporting strategies and policies that aim to reduce the burden of cancer, focusing on both personal and societal risk factors.
The Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan has called for a new EU-Supported Cancer Screening Scheme to
assure high performance of cancer screening programs across all Member States (MS). The general
objective of EUCanScreen is to assure sustainable implementation of high-quality screening for breast,
cervical and colorectal cancers, as well as implementation of the recently recommended screening
programs – for lung, prostate and gastric cancers. EUCanScreen will facilitate the reduction of cancer
burden and achieving equity across the EU.
Seven specific objectives have been set for EUCanScreen: 1) ensuring full implementation of evidencebased,
cost-effective and quality-assured screening programmes for breast, cervical and colorectal
cancers; 2) preparing for implementation of evidence-based, cost-effective and quality-assured screening
programmes for lung, prostate and gastric cancers; 3) ensuring proper program governance and
sustainability; 4) ensuring better-quality, timelier and comparable data collection and monitoring of
screening programmes; 5) ensuring equal access of eligible EU citizens to screening programmes and reducing cancer inequalities; 6) ensuring capacity building in cancer screening, and 7) ensuring
collaboration and coherence with related projects funded under EU Programmes.
Work Package 1: Project coordination
Work Package 2: Dissemination (Greece)
Work Package 3: Evaluation of the project
Work Package 4: Sustainability
Work Package 5: Monitoring
Work Package 6: Addressing barriers and facilitators in cancer screening
Work Package 7: Implementation research to improve the existing screening programmes
Work Package 8: Facilitation of the new screening approach implementation
Work Package 9: Risk-based approaches
Work Package 10: Modelling and health technology assessment to optimise cancer screening programs across Europe
Work Package 11: Capacity-building
The general objective of EUCanScreen is to assure sustainable implementation of high-quality screening for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers, as well as implementation of the recently recommended screening programs – for lung, prostate and gastric cancers. EUCanScreen will facilitate the reduction of cancer burden and achieving equity across the EU.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s EU4HEALTH Programme under the Grant Agreement no 101162959
