LECTURE SERIES – THEME 2025-2026: CANCER

Epidemiology & Prevention

Designed to foster an interdisciplinary, technical-scientific dialogue on the epidemiology and prevention, mortality, and survival projections, risk factors, screening, care measures, related developments in research and other relevant topics, renowned international keynote speakers will deliver high-level lectures.

*For exact time and location, please refer to upcoming individual lecture poster

UPCOMING events

02.10.2025 – 🇬🇧 Best practices for doing science with data
Dr. Bruno Rodrigues

Dr.Bruno
Rodrigues

Head of Statistics department
Ministry of Research and Higher Education, Luxembourg

06.11.2025 – 🇬🇧 Cancer: Living longer with AI
Dr. Titus Josef Brinker

Dr. Titus
Josef Brinker

Division Head
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

19.02.2026 – 🇬🇧 The Provision of Global Cancer Statistics at
IARC/WHO
Dr Adalberto M. Filho

Dr Adalberto
M. Filho

Staff Scientist
International Agency for Research on Cancer/ World Health Organization

05.03.2026 – 🇬🇧 A family affair? Long-term economic and mental
health effects of spousal cancer
Professor Petri Böckerman

Professor Petri
Böckerman

Professor
University of Jyväskylä, Labour Institute for Economic Research, and IZA
Institute of Labor

16.04.2026 – 🇬🇧 Insights in cancer registries and data exchanges, Insights from Biobanks and Cancer Registries
Professor Giske Ursin

Professor Giske
Ursin

Director, Cancer Registry Norway, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences,
University of Oslo, Norway

18.06.2026 – 🇬🇧 Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival – what’s the problem?
Dr. Michel P. Coleman

Dr. Michel
P. Coleman

Professor of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

17.09.2026 – 🇬🇧 The impact of alcohol on the global burden of cancer: evidence and estimates from epidemiological studies
Dr. Harriet Rumgay

Dr. Harriet
Rumgay

Epidemiologist, Cancer Surveillance Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer

15.10.2026 – 🇬🇧 Prognostic and predictive biomarkers in glioma
clinical care
Dr. Annette Molinaro

Dr. Annette
Molinaro

Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Previous edition (2023-2024)

Understanding glioma development – prediagnostic biomarker analyses
Prof Beatrice Melin

Building knowledge on childhood cancer through collaboration of cancer registries
Dr Eva Steliarova-Foucher

Real world data for real world evidence in cancer
Dr Talita Duarte Salles

The Economics of Cancer Screening and Services
Prof Ciaran O’Neill

Social inequalities in cancer incidence and survival. Quantitative approaches in France and Europe.
Prof Guy Launoy

Women, power, and cancer
Dr Isabelle Soerjomataram

Geriatric oncology: Moving the needle towards an evidence-based precision approach for older adults with cancer
Dr Nicolò Battisti

Principles of Organized Population-Based Cancer Screening
Dr Andre Carvalho

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1 A-B Rue Thomas Edison, 1445 Luxembourg
Salle Marie S. Curie & Salle Louis Pasteur

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