19–21 Oct 2026
German Cancer Research Center / Communication Center
Europe/Berlin timezone

Scientific Program

 

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
Marianne Aznar, University of Manchester, UK
Sarah Collen, European Association of Urology (EAU), Belgium
Jessica Currier, Oregon Health & Science, US
Martin Eklund, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Carolina Espina, IARC, France
Beatrice Fervers, Centre Léon Bérard, France
Amanda Kong, Wake Forest University, US
Sonja Loges, DKFZ, Germany
Kevin Oeffinger, Duke University School of Medicine, US
Evgenia Ostroumova, IARC, France
Ann Partridge, Dana-Farber, US
Heinz-Peter Schlemmer, DKFZ, Germany

Helena Verkooijen, University Medical Center Utrecht and Netherlands Cancer Institute Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Roel Vermeulen, University of Utrecht
John Lizhe Zhuang, Universtity of Cambridge, UK

 

ICCP Timetable

Start: Monday, 19th October 2026 at 3.30 pm 

End: Wednesday, 21st October 2026 at 1.30 pm

more details later

 

Satelite Symposium: Lessons Learned from Prospective Studies (no fee)

Wednesday, 21st October 2026, from 3 pm, Check-in from 2.30 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)