29/10/2016:Activities of the cancer registry off Crete
The regional Cancer Registry of Crete is a joint activity of the Clinic of Social and Family Medicine and the Oncology Department of the University Hospital in Heraklion, Crete. Recently it completed the data collection process for all malignant neoplasms in Crete, from 1992 to 2013 and participated in three major conferences that offered great opportunities for networking, as described below.
5/10-7/10 ENCR scientific meeting and General Assembly in Baveno, Italy
• Networking with several delegates and representatives from various cancer registries around Europe.
• We received excellent feedback for the poster and the oral speech. They were impressed on the methodological and analysis processes we follow and asked for networking and collaborations.
• We met the representatives of the central office of ENCR-Joint Research Centre in European Commission and we agreed on strengthening our collaboration. First step: Offer data and link them with the central database in order to represent Greece in the ENCR annual reports. Future steps: Participate in joint scientific research, projects and scientific papers.
19/10-21/10 IACR conference in Marrakech, Morocco
6 posters and 1 oral speech; Dr. Sifai-Pistolla Dimitra presented 3 posters and had 1 oral speech, Mrs. Chatzea Vasiliki-Eirini presented 3 posters.
Other achievements:
- Networking with several delegates and representatives from various cancer registries around the world.
•We received excellent feedback for our posters, while all of our printed poster copies (A4, approximately 100) were handled out.
All young researchers that were candidates for the Enrico Anglesio Prize award were separately presented during the closing ceremony.
More information and photos are available here: www.crc.uoc.gr