At a glance
Key Features
- Keynote lectures
- Flash talks
- Networking formats
- Sessions with presentations and round table discussions
- Poster sessions
Sessions on
- Inequities
- The big three: smoking, alcohol and obesity
- Implementation science
- Risk-stratified early detection
- Advances in liquid biopsy and imaging for early detection
- Planetary health and effects of environmental exposures
- Late effects and prevention after cancer
Confirmed Speakers
Peter Albers, DKFZ, Germany
Margreet Ausems, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
Marianne Aznar, University of Manchester, UK
Leonie Brose, King's College London, UK
Sarah Collen, European Association of Urology (EAU), Belgium
Jessica Currier, Oregon Health & Science, US
Martin Eklund, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Carolina Espina, IARC, France
Marria Fernandez, University of Texas, US
Beatrice Fervers, Centre Léon Bérard, France
Niamh Fitzgerald, University of Stirling, UKAmanda Kong, Wake Forest University, US
Sonja Loges, DKFZ, Germany
Miriam Mutebi, Aga Khan University Hospital, Kenia
Kevin Oeffinger, Duke University School of Medicine, US
Evgenia Ostroumova, IARC, France
Ann Partridge, Dana-Farber, US
Heinz-Peter Schlemmer, DKFZ, Germany
Falko Sniehotta, University Medicine Mannheim, Germany
Juliet A Usher-Smith, University of Cambridge, UK
Carlijn van der Aalst, ErasmusMC, The Netherlands
Helena Verkooijen, University Medical Center Utrecht and Netherlands Cancer Institute Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Roel Vermeulen, University of Utrecht
Michel Wensing, University of Heidelberg, Germany
John Lizhe Zhuang, Universtity of Cambridge, UK
ICCP Timetable
Start: Monday, 19th October 2026 3.30 PM
End: Wednesday, 21st October 2026 2.15 PM + Satelite Symposium
Monday, 19th October 2026
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2:30 PM |
・・・・・・・・・・・CHECK-IN & Welcome Coffee・・・・・・・・・・ |
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3:30 PM |
Welcome |
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Michael Baumann, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), DE |
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Rita Schmutzler, German Cancer Aid, DE |
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Federal Minister Dorothee Bär, German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, DE (Video) |
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Requested: Federal Minister Carsten Linnemann, German Federal Ministry of Health, DE (Video) |
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4:00 PM |
Keynote |
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Chairs: Ernest Hawk & Philip Castle |
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Cancer Prevention and Equity (preliminary title) |
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Miriam Mutebi, The Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenia |
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4:45 PM |
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5:15 PM |
Research session: Inequities |
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Chairs: Connie Hoe & Ernest Hawk |
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Amanda Kong, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, US |
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Margreet Ausems, UMC Utrecht and NCI Amsterdam, Utrecht and Amsterdam, NL |
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Jessica Currier, Oregon Health & Science, Portland, US |
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6:30 PM |
・・・・・・・・・・・Small Get together・・・・・・・・・・・ |
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8:30 PM |
end of 1st day |
Tuesday, 20th October 2026
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8:00 AM |
・・・・・・・・・・・CHECK-IN & Light Breakfast・・・・・・・・・・・ |
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8:30 AM |
Welcome back |
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8:45 AM |
Research session: Implementation Science |
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Chairs: Samuel Smith & Connie Hoe |
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Juliet Usher-Smith, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (online) |
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Maria Fernandez, University of Texas, Houston, US |
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Michel Wensing, University of Heidelberg, Germany |
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10:00 AM |
Research session: Tackling the big three: Tobacco, alcohol and overweight |
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Chairs: Joachim Schüz & Ute Mons |
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Leonie Brose, King's College London, UK |
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Niamh Fitzgerald, University of Stirling, UK |
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Falko Sniehotta, University Medicine Mannheim, Germany |
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11:30 AM |
Poster Spotlights |
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12:00 PM |
・・・・・・・・・Lunch Break・・・・・・・・・ |
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Poster display and networking |
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1:30 PM |
Research session: Risk-Stratified early detection |
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Chairs: Sigrid Carlsson & Marjanka Schmidt |
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Sarah Collen, European Association of Urology (EAU), Brüssel, BE |
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Martin Eklund, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, SE |
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Peter Albers, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, GE (online) |
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Carlijn van der Aalst, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam , NL |
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2:45 PM |
Roundtable session: What will change early cancer detection over the next decade? |
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Chairs: Magdalena Görtz & Ernest Hawk |
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John Lizhe Zhuang, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK |
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Heinz-Peter Schlemmer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, DE |
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Sonja Loges, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, DE |
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3:45 PM |
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4:15 PM |
Thematic discussion tables / Networking time |
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5:15 PM |
・・・・・・・・・・・Short Break・・・・・・・・・・・ |
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5:30 PM |
CPGS - Cancer Prevention Graduate School |
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Chair: Hermann Brenner |
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6:00 PM |
・・・・・・・・・・・Get-Together ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ |
Wednesday, 21st October 2026
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8:00 AM |
・・・・・・・・・・・CHECK-IN & Light Breakfast・・・・・・・・・・・ |
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8:30 AM |
Welcome back |
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8:45 AM |
Research session: Planetary health and effects of environmental exposures |
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Chairs: Joachim Schüz & Karol Nowicki-Osuch |
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Beatrice Fervers, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, FR |
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Evgenia Ostroumova, IARC, Lyon, FR |
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Roel Vermeulen, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, NL |
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10:00 AM |
Poster Spotlights |
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10:30 AM |
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Poster display and networking |
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11:30 AM |
Research session: Late Effects and Prevention After Cancer |
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Chairs: Cecile Ronckers & Samuel Smith |
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Kevin Oeffinger, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, US |
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Marianne Aznar, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
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Ann Partridge, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Boston, US |
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Helena Verkooijen, UMC Utrecht and NCI Amsterdam, Utrecht and Amsterdam, NL |
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12:45 PM |
Keynote |
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Chairs: Philip Castle & Ute Mons |
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The European Code Against Cancer: a model for global cancer prevention |
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Carolina Espina, IARC, Lyon, FR |
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1:30 PM |
CLOSING REMARKS |
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1:40 PM |
・・・・・・・・・・・Lunch to go ・・・・・・・・・・・ |
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2:15 PM |
・・・・・・・・・・・End of Conference ・・・・・・・・・・・ |
Satelite Symposium: Lessons Learned from Prospective Studies (no fee)
Wednesday, 21st October 2026, from 3 PM, Check-in from 2.30 PM, end: 6 pm
upon invitation of Divisons of Cancer Epidemiology C020 and C180: Renée Turzanski Fortner, Verena Katzke, Rudolf Kaaks
Program:
- Risk-Adapted Prostate Cancer Screening: Evidence from the PROBASE Cohort (Peter Albers (online), DKFZ)
- EPIC: Building a European Platform for Research on Cancer Causes and Prevention (Elio Riboli, Imperial College London)
- Dietary Assessment in Nutritional Epidemiology: Errors, Calibration, and Analytical Solutions (Pietro Ferrari, IARC)
- Hormones, Metabolism, and Cancer Risk: Causal Pathways from Prospective Studies (Tim Key, University of Oxford)
- Prospective Cohorts for Early Detection: From Biomarker Discovery to Validation (Renée Turzanski Fortner, DKFZ)
