💛 For the Public Same disease. Same continent. Different odds. 1 in 11 women in the EU will develop breast cancer before the age of 74. Yet breast cancer mortality rates differ around twofold between EU countries, and access to organised screening is one of the reasons why. The EU Council Recommendation on cancer screening now calls for organised mammography screening for women aged 45 to 74. On World Breast Cancer Day, EUCanScreen is working with partners across Europe to make that recommendation a reality for every woman, wherever she lives. Your postcode should not decide your chances. 💜 📊 Source: European Cancer Information System (ECIS), JRC 🇪🇺 This project is co-funded by the European Union. #EUCanScreen #BreastCancer #WorldBreastCancerDay #CancerScreening #HealthEquity #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth

🩺 For screening professionals: 🇮🇹 THERE’S A TIME FOR EVERYTHING. THE TIME FOR PREVENTION IS NOW! In the Autonomous Province of Trento (@ProvinciaTrento), two experiences in colorectal and cervical cancer screening show how organised programmes can strengthen prevention and continuity of care through structured pathways, timely follow-up and evidence-based approaches In colorectal cancer screening, people with a positive faecal occult blood test (FOBT) receive structured telephone counselling from healthcare professionals, connecting screening with diagnostic follow-up. The programme reports 95% adherence to colonoscopy (compared to a national average of 83.7%), with 92% of people receiving counselling within 6 days of a positive test. 🎗️ In cervical cancer screening, the introduction of primary HPV testing enabled the programme to compare women undergoing their first HPV test with those returning for a subsequent screening round. HPV positivity decreased from 8% at the first round to 3% at the subsequent round, alongside lower Pap test positivity at triage and fewer high-grade cervical lesions (CIN2+) detected. Two different screening pathways, one shared goal: turning organised prevention into timely, effective care. This project is co-funded by the European Union. 🇪🇺 The Italian EUCanScreen network brings together: ProMIS · ISPRO · @istsupsan · @MinisteroSalute · @Ausl_RE · @RegioneMarcheIT · @CpoPiemonte · ULSS 4 Veneto Orientale · @MarioNegriIRCCS · Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · @ProvinciaTrento · @IstTumori · @RegLombardia · ATS Pavia · Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II" Bari · ASL Taranto ... Stay with us! #EUCanScreen #CancerScreening #CancerPrevention #ColorectalCancer #CervicalCancer #HPV #Trentino #HealthCommunication #PublicHealth #Italy #CountryCampaign #JointAction

🔬 For researchers & innovators: 🇮🇹 USING DATA TO RETHINK COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING Making better use of information collected through colorectal cancer screening could help identify different levels of individual risk and guide the development of more targeted screening protocols. In this video interview, Carlo Senore, Regional Screening Coordinator, @CpoPiemonte, and Task Leader of EUCanScreen Tasks 5.3, 9.4 and 10.4, explains how researchers are investigating the use of results from earlier colorectal cancer screening rounds, alongside information on lifestyle and environmental exposures, to better assess individual risk. 🎗️ While screening programmes already collect valuable data, gathering additional information directly from participants introduces a further challenge: the time and effort required could discourage participation, with potential implications for equity and access. A study currently underway in Italy, funded by the Ministry of Health, is examining the impact of lifestyle questionnaires on screening participation, with the aim of informing future communication and invitation strategies. Better screening strategies depend not only on the data we collect, but also on how we collect them. This project is co-funded by the European Union. 🇪🇺 The Italian EUCanScreen network brings together: ProMIS · ISPRO · @istsupsan · @MinisteroSalute · @Ausl_RE · @RegioneMarcheIT · @CpoPiemonte · ULSS 4 Veneto Orientale · @MarioNegriIRCCS · Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · Provincia Autonoma di Trento · @IstTumori · @RegLombardia · ATS Pavia · Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II" Bari · ASL Taranto ... Stay with us! #EUCanScreen #CancerScreening #CancerPrevention #ColorectalCancer #HealthCommunication #PublicHealth #Italy #CountryCampaign #JointAction

🇮🇹 BRINGING CERVICAL CANCER PREVENTION CLOSER TO WOMEN. In Taranto, Italy, ASL Taranto is working to re-engage women who have never participated in organised cervical cancer screening, either because they did not receive an invitation or did not attend their scheduled appointment. Reaching these women is a public health priority, given the crucial role of early detection in preventing cervical cancer and reducing its incidence. 🎗️ To strengthen cervical cancer prevention, ASL Taranto has launched a public awareness campaign promoting cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination as part of an integrated prevention strategy. The initiative includes additional screening sessions at local Community Health Centres, alongside dedicated HPV Vaccination Open Days offering free vaccination to unvaccinated women born between 1989 and 2001. The campaign also involves general practitioners, pharmacies, municipalities and gynaecologists to promote a culture of prevention, raise awareness of available services and facilitate access to cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination. Reaching more women starts with bringing prevention into their communities. 📖 Read more: eucanscreen.eu/2026/10/15/as… This project is co-funded by the European Union. 🇪🇺 The Italian EUCanScreen network brings together: ProMIS · ISPRO · @istsupsan · @MinisteroSalute · @Ausl_RE · @RegioneMarcheIT · @CpoPiemonte · ULSS 4 Veneto Orientale · @MarioNegriIRCCS · Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · Provincia Autonoma di Trento · @IstTumori · @RegLombardia · ATS Pavia · Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II” Bari · ASL Taranto ... Stay with us! #EUCanScreen #EUCanScreenForYou #CancerScreening #CancerPrevention #CervicalCancer #HPV #HealthCommunication #PublicHealth #Italy #CountryCampaign #JointAction #Taranto

🏛️ For policymakers & health authorities: 🇮🇹 RISK-STRATIFIED SCREENING: ITALY’S EXPERIENCE IN EUCANSCREEN Italy is bringing one of the world’s first experiences of individual risk-stratified cervical cancer screening to EUCanScreen. By adapting screening pathways according to whether and when women were vaccinated against HPV, Italy has introduced a differentiated approach that takes individual risk into account. 🎗️ Through EUCanScreen Work Package 9, this experience can be evaluated and shared with other European countries. At the same time, Italy is learning from other risk stratification strategies developed across Europe, including those based on HPV genotyping, which are expected to be introduced into Italian screening programmes in the coming years. In this video interview, @giorgi_rossi , Director of the Epidemiology Service at @Ausl_RE and Scientific Coordinator of EUCanScreen Tasks 9.2 and 9.3, outlines Italy’s experience in risk-stratified cervical cancer screening and highlights the value of this two-way exchange of knowledge and experience. Different experiences, shared knowledge: improving cancer screening together. This project is co-funded by the European Union. 🇪🇺 The Italian EUCanScreen network brings together: ProMIS · ISPRO · @istsupsan · @MinisteroSalute · @Ausl_RE · @RegioneMarcheIT · @CpoPiemonte · ULSS 4 Veneto Orientale · @MarioNegriIRCCS · Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · Provincia Autonoma di Trento · @IstTumori · @RegLombardia · ATS Pavia · Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II” Bari · ASL Taranto ... Stay with us! #EUCanScreen #CancerScreening #CancerPrevention #CervicalCancer #HPV #HealthCommunication #PublicHealth #Italy #CountryCampaign #JointAction

🏛️ For policymakers & health authorities: 🇮🇹 STRENGTHENING CANCER PREVENTION THROUGH EUROPEAN COLLABORATION Personalised cancer prevention requires more than scientific evidence: it demands connecting research, expertise, and European initiatives. Within EUCanScreen WP9 (Risk-based approaches), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) contributes to developing guidance on integrating risk-based approaches into organised cancer screening programmes, examining effectiveness, implementation requirements, and equity implications. To maximise impact, this work relies on continuous dialogue across Europe. At the EUCanScreen Consortium Meeting in Turin (2025), UCSC highlighted synergies with PROPHET, focused on personalised prevention, and ECHoS, dedicated to European cancer ecosystem networks. The dialogue continued at the ECHoS Cancer Mission Fair in Warsaw (2025), where EUCanScreen brought its perspective on organised screening and risk stratification to discussions on prevention and early detection. Most recently, at the PROPHET event in Rome (2026), UCSC engaged with stakeholders on the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) and the European Roadmap on Personalised Prevention. 🎗️ These connections extend further through @jane_eu_ja (JANE-2), where the UCSC/Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS team coordinates the Network of Expertise on Personalised Prevention, and a dedicated subgroup within the European Commission’s EU Health Policy Platform involving EUCanScreen, EUnetCCC, JA PCM, and ECHoS. The ultimate objective of these synergies goes beyond individual projects: connecting complementary expertise, reducing fragmentation, and transferring innovations to make risk-based cancer screening more effective, accessible, sustainable, and equitable across European healthcare systems. Connecting knowledge, strengthening prevention! This project is co-funded by the European Union. 🇪🇺 The Italian EUCanScreen network brings together: ProMIS · ISPRO · @istsupsan · @MinisteroSalute · @Ausl_RE · @RegioneMarcheIT · @CpoPiemonte · ULSS 4 Veneto Orientale · @MarioNegriIRCCS · Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · Provincia Autonoma di Trento · @IstTumori · @RegLombardia · ATS Pavia · Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II” Bari · ASL Taranto ... Stay with us! #EUCanScreen #CoFunded #CancerScreening #CancerPrevention #HealthCommunication #PublicHealth #Italy #CountryCampaign #JointAction

🏛️ For policymakers & health authorities: 🇮🇹 TOWARDS RISK-STRATIFIED CANCER SCREENING IN EUROPE. Adapting cancer screening programmes to individual risk profiles could help make prevention pathways more targeted and responsive to people’s needs. In the interview “Italy and the introduction of risk-stratified screening programmes”, Paola Mantellini, Director of the Cancer Screening and Secondary Prevention Unit at the Institute for Cancer Research, Prevention and Clinical Network (ISPRO), and Scientific Coordinator of EUCanScreen’s WP9, discusses Italy’s contribution to the development of risk-stratified cancer screening. With 12 Italian institutions participating in the Joint Action, Italy is working alongside European partners to assess scientific evidence and identify criteria that could support the introduction of risk stratification at a local level. 🎗️ Focusing on breast, colorectal and cervical cancer screening, this work involves examining the available scientific evidence to determine whether existing programmes could be organised according to individual risk. This could mean more frequent invitations and new or complementary tests for people at higher risk, while those at lower risk could be offered longer screening intervals and less intensive interventions. The activities also extend to developing guidance for lung, prostate and gastric cancer screening, considering specific risk groups and geographical contexts. From scientific evidence to practical guidance, EUCanScreen is exploring how cancer screening programmes can better respond to different risk profiles. The Italian EUCanScreen network brings together: ProMIS · ISPRO · @istsupsan · @MinisteroSalute · @Ausl_RE · @RegioneMarcheIT · @CpoPiemonte · ULSS 4 Veneto Orientale · @MarioNegriIRCCS · Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · Provincia Autonoma di Trento · @IstTumori · @RegLombardia · ATS Pavia · Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II” Bari · ASL Taranto ... Stay with us! #EUCanScreen #CoFunded #CancerScreening #CancerPrevention #JointAction #CountryCampaign #ProMIS #Italy

🏛️ For policymakers & health authorities: 🇮🇹 Engagement as a practice. Across Italy, several initiatives have proven the value of actively involving stakeholders in cancer screening. The strength of this approach lies in the diverse perspectives each and every contributor offers. Stakeholder Forums create a space where citizens, patients, clinicians, public health experts, and communicators can dialogue around the same table. In the recent Stakeholder Forum on prostate cancer screening, 24 key actors collaborated through 2 Delphi consultations, 7 plenary meetings, and targeted literature reviews. 🎗️ This collective effort identified 16 priority questions across four key areas: data on the usage of PSA testing, recruitment methods, and pathway redesign; screening protocol; communication, training, and co-design; ethical, legal, social, and monitoring aspects. Now it's time to put this approach into decision-making processes! Different perspectives, one shared vision: screening designed for people… WITH PEOPLE. The Italian EUCanScreen network: ProMIS · ISPRO · @istsupsan · @MinisteroSalute · AUSL IRCCS Reggio Emilia · @RegioneMarcheIT · @CpoPiemonte · ULSS 4 Veneto Orientale · @MarioNegriIRCCS · Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · Provincia Autonoma di Trento · @IstTumori · @RegLombardia · ATS Pavia · Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II" Bari · ASL Taranto ... Stay with us! #EUCanScreen #CoFunded #CancerScreening #Italy #CountryCampaign

💛 For everyone in Reggio Emilia and across Europe: 🇮🇹 Screening goes to School in Reggio Emilia Since 2023, educational sessions have been organised in literacy schools across the Reggio Emilia area for learners with A1 and A2 language proficiency levels. The sessions explain screening programmes in a clear and accessible way, focusing on why they are important, how to access them, how often to take part and the benefits of prevention. Beyond translated materials, the sessions offer an opportunity for direct dialogue, allowing participants to ask questions, clarify doubts and discuss organisational, linguistic and cultural barriers to participation. Informing, listening and creating opportunities for dialogue can help make prevention more accessible and bring screening services closer to everyone. The Italian EUCanScreen network brings together: ProMIS · ISPRO · @istsupsan · @MinisteroSalute · @Ausl_RE · @RegioneMarcheIT · @CpoPiemonte · ULSS 4 Veneto Orientale · @MarioNegriIRCCS · Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · Provincia Autonoma di Trento · @IstTumori · @RegLombardia · ATS Pavia · Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II" Bari · ASL Taranto #EUCanScreen #CoFunded #CancerScreening #CancerPrevention #ReggioEmilia #HealthCommunication #PublicHealth #Italy #CountryCampaign #Barriers

💛 For everyone in Piedmont and across Europe: 🇮🇹 My Trusted Screening – Choosing Quality in Cancer Prevention In Italy's Piedmont Region, the "Prevenzione Serena" campaign highlights the value of organised public cancer screening programmes and helps citizens make informed choices about their health. Developed by @CpoPiemonte, in collaboration with @regionepiemonte, the campaign focuses on three organised screening programmes covering breast, cervical and colorectal cancer. 🎗️ Under the message "Choose quality, my trusted screening", the initiative explains why evidence-based protocols, free access and the quality of the entire screening pathway matter. Through illustrated booklets, information leaflets, posters, videos and coordinated social media activities, the campaign brings clear and reliable information closer to citizens. An Italian communication experience that reflects EUCanScreen's commitment to high-quality, accessible and equitable cancer screening across Europe. The Italian EUCanScreen network brings together: ProMIS · ISPRO · @istsupsan · @MinisteroSalute · AUSL IRCCS Reggio Emilia · @RegioneMarcheIT · @CpoPiemonte · ULSS 4 Veneto Orientale · @MarioNegriIRCCS · Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · Provincia Autonoma di Trento · @IstTumori · @RegLombardia · ATS Pavia · Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II" Bari · ASL Taranto #EUCanScreen #CoFunded #CancerScreening #PrevenzioneSerena #Italy #CountryCampaign #ProMIS

🏛️ For policymakers & health authorities: A SYSTEM BUILT ON A NETWORK. In Italy, organised cancer screening operates within a decentralised health system across national, regional, and local levels. Different responsibilities, one shared goal: ensuring coordinated and consistent screening programmes across the country. Across these levels, different bodies work in close connection, with continuous feedback between them. At national level, the Ministry of Health sets the overall framework, long-term objectives and health benefits package, and monitors the system. Regions govern their health systems, adapting national recommendations to regional needs and defining organisational frameworks and resource allocation. Local Health Authorities deliver services, including preventive and public health care. 🎗️ Within this network, the National Centre for Screening Monitoring (ONS – Osservatorio Nazionale Screening) provides technical support to the Ministry of Health and the Regions. With the Institute for Cancer Research, Prevention and Clinical Network (ISPRO) as its operational and administrative hub, the ONS connects regional screening coordination centres and works closely with the National Institute of Health, scientific societies, and citizens' and patients' associations. This network turns collaboration into concrete action: monitoring screening performance, implementing information systems, producing national guidelines, ensuring quality assurance, and driving research. Through EUCanScreen, practices developed within Italian screening programmes can be shared at European level, while approaches and experiences developed with European partners can be transferred, tested and adapted in the Italian context. This ensures an effective exchange in both directions. FROM ITALY TO EUROPE — AND BACK AGAIN: ONE NETWORK, SHARED KNOWLEDGE, STRONGER SCREENING! The Italian EUCanScreen network: ProMIS · ISPRO · @istsupsan · @MinisteroSalute · AUSL IRCCS Reggio Emilia · @RegioneMarcheIT · CPO Piemonte · ULSS 4 Veneto Orientale · @MarioNegriIRCCS · Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · Provincia Autonoma di Trento · @IstTumori · @RegLombardia · ATS Pavia · Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II" Bari · ASL Taranto #EUCanScreen #CoFunded #CountryCampaign #CancerScreening #Italy #ProMIS

🩺 For screening professionals: What does risk-based prostate cancer screening look like in practice? 🇮🇹 Lombardy Region @RegLombardia at the SIUrO National Congress On 3 October, Lombardy Region presented EUCanScreen at the @SIUrO National Congress in Turin, sharing its experience with ATS Pavia in developing more personalised and equitable cancer screening pathways. 🎗️ A key focus was the development of an organised, risk based approach to prostate cancer screening, integrating individual risk stratification, health information and differentiated diagnostic pathways. The presentation also highlighted the PRECEDE PROCEED method for identifying organisational, social and communication barriers to screening participation and defining evidence based corrective interventions. Through EUCanScreen, the Lombardy experience contributes to the exchange of organisational models and good practices across Europe. #EUCanScreen #CancerScreening #ProstateCancer #CancerPrevention #PublicHealth #CoFundedEU #ProMIS @ProMISOfficial

Find EUCanScreen at the1st Panhellenic Congress of Clinical Anatomy at the 📍 Cultural Centre, University of Patras 🗓 2–4 October 2026 Today's anatomists, clinicians and medical students are tomorrow's screening workforce. We are here to connect with them and talk about stronger cancer screening programmes in Greece and across the EU. At our stand, we are sharing how high-quality, evidence-based screening can reduce the burden of cancer across Europe. Come and say hello! 🔗 eucanscreen.eu

🏛️ For policymakers & health authorities: 🇮🇹 From recommendations to practice — making cancer screening accessible to everyone. Equal access to cancer screening cannot be taken for granted. People with physical, intellectual and sensory disabilities may face barriers related to facilities, diagnostic equipment, information, communication and service organisation. Removing these barriers is a matter of health equity — ensuring everyone has a real opportunity to benefit from cancer prevention. On 2 October in Mantova, the conference "Screening oncologico e disabilità. Un binomio possibile" explored how to make screening pathways more accessible, equitable and inclusive — connecting national experience with ongoing activities within the EUCanScreen Joint Action. A key reference: the recommendations published by FASO in December 2025, identifying concrete actions to address physical, informational and relational barriers. Mantova also offers a concrete example — the Delfino-DAMA pathway, facilitating access to diagnostic and therapeutic services for people with intellectual and neuromotor disabilities. 🎗️ Inclusive screening is not about creating separate pathways. It's about making existing pathways truly accessible to everyone. Thank you again to ProMIS official for this important content! 🙏 The Italian EUCanScreen network brings together: Istituto per lo Studio e la Prevenzione e la Rete Oncologica, ISPRO @istsupsan @MinisteroSalute Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Reggio Emilia Regione Marche Azienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino Azienda ULSS 4 Veneto Orientale @MarioNegriIRCCS Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, UCSC Provincia Autonoma di Trento Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Regione Lombardia Agenzia di Tutela della Salute di Pavia Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II" IRCCS Azienda Sanitaria Locale Taranto #EUCanScreen #CoFunded #CancerScreening #Disability #HealthEquity #Accessibility #Italy #CountryCampaign #FASO

👏 Great to see @HUnivValdecilla and @IDIVALdecilla specialists strengthening their skills as colonoscopy trainers in Warsaw! Building capacity across Europe is at the heart of #EUCanScreen. #CancerScreening #ColorectalCancer #EU4Health

EUCanScreen’s Screening Campaign Country 🇮🇹 This October, Italy takes the spotlight! Throughout the month, we will share stories, experiences and good practices from Italian cancer screening programmes, with a focus on people, innovation, access and collaboration. 🎗️ From local initiatives to national strategies, this is a journey through the many ways screening is evolving across Italy. The Italian EUCanScreen network brings together: Istituto per lo Studio e la Prevenzione e la Rete Oncologica, ISPRO Istituto Superiore di Sanità Ministero della Salute Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Reggio Emilia Regione Marche Azienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino Azienda ULSS 4 Veneto Orientale Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, UCSC Provincia Autonoma di Trento Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori @RegLombardia Agenzia di Tutela della Salute di Pavia @IstTumori Azienda Sanitaria Locale Taranto ... Stay with us! ProMIS Official #EUCanScreen #CountryCampaignItaly #CancerScreening #CancerPrevention #PublicHealth