World Cancer Report Updates webinar series: The Present and Future of Lung Cancer Screening

The seventh instalment in the World Cancer Report Updates webinar series will be broadcast live on Tuesday 6 December 2022 at 14:00 CET. The topic of the webinar will be The Present and Future of Lung Cancer Screening: Latest Evidence and Research Perspectives. The event, which will last approximately one hour, will include two presentations and a question and answer session. The event will be chaired by Dr Rosa Giuliani, a Consultant in Medical Oncology at the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, United Kingdom, and the Director of Public Policy at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO).

In the first presentation, Professor Joachim Aerts, the Head of the Department of Pulmonary Medicine at the Erasmus University Medical Center, Netherlands, will discuss the latest state of affairs of the published data on lung cancer screening.

In the second presentation, Dr Hilary Robbins, a Scientist in the Genomic Epidemiology Branch at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), will discuss how lung cancer screening programmes can be made more effective and efficient by using information about individual risk to tailor aspects of eligibility, screening frequency, and nodule follow-up. Her presentation will explore research developments in predicting lung cancer occurrence using statistical models, blood-based biomarkers, and artificial intelligence with low-dose computed tomography (CT) images.

The World Cancer Report Updates webinar series aims to provide new perspectives or present new research, to complement the large variety of educational resources based on selected content of World Cancer Report. These educational resources are freely accessible from the World Cancer Report Updates learning platform, which was developed with the support of and in collaboration with the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO).

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