EUROCHIP-3 WORK PACKAGES

MAIN WORK PACKAGES of EUROCHIP-3

Ahti Anttila Renée Otter Adherence to cervical screening in 5 Eastern EU countries Population-based CR indicators: dissemination and promotion Piret Veerus Cancer rehabilitation indicators Andrea Mciheli Cutting costs of cancer control

EUROCHIP-3 WORK PACKAGE on CERVICAL SCREENING

WORK PACKAGE PARTICIPANTS

• Associated partners • Finnish Cancer Registry, Helsinki (Ahti Anttila) • Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels (Marc Arbyn) • Bulgarian National Cancer Registry, Sofia (Zdravka Valerianova) • National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn (Piret Veerus) • Collaborating Partners • Latvian Association of Gyn/Ob (Ilze Viberga) • Riga East hospital, Cancer center of Latvia (Ludmila Engele) • Lithuanian Cancer Registry (Jouzas Kurtinaitis) • Ministry of Public Health (Irina Stamate) • Babes-Bolyai University (Adriana Baban) • Dr Victor Babes Foundation (Iuliana Apostol) • Oncologic Prevention Centre, Turin (Guglielmo Ronco) • ECCA – European Cervical Cancer Association • ECPC – European Cancer Patient Coalition • ONDA – Italian National Observatory on Women Health

WORK PACKAGE FUNDS

• The EC accepted 240,000 € of total budget • It corresponds to

144,000 €

of EC funds • This money is finalized to pay: • screening activities in 5 countries: • EST and BUL have dedicated funds • INT (Milan) have funds for personnel payment in LIT, ROM, LAT • organization of meetings (1 meeting under INT budget, and 1 meeting under Bulgarian Budget) • WP coordination in the Finnish Cancer Registry • Specific analysis on avoidable deaths in the Institute of Public Health (Brussels)

1ST ACTIVITY: EUROCHIP-2 RESULT DISSEMINATION

• Submission of 5 country-specific papers • Results of EUROCHIP-2 studies in 5 Eastern countries to be circulated via EUROCHIP websites and submitted to the EC Network of Competent Authorities • National reports: A special issue is under production in EUNICE involving all EU member countries;anttila, G.Ronco

EUROCHIP-3 SCREENING ACTIVITIES IN 5 COUNTRIES (LAT, LIT, EST, ROM, BUL)

• MAIN AIM: Use of questionnaires to investigate attendance rates to screening (recommendations of cervical cancer guidelines) • Dissemination of information: according to the European Guidelines for Cervical Cancer Screening guidelines in collaboration with the ECCA • Promotion of screening so that targeted attendance rates are reached among women, and key professional groups, and policy makers are alerted (through campaigning and production and dissemination of information)

POSSIBLE WORKPLAN

• MEETING: Discussion on WP4 protocol activities in each of 5 Eastern European MSs When: Dec 08-Feb 09 • Study protocol design on adherence to cervical screening in 5 Eastern EU MS When: Finish at Sep 09

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WORK PACKAGE on CANCER REHABILITATION INDICATORS

WORK PACKAGE ON CANCER REHABILITATION INDICATORS

• Associated partners: National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn (Piret Veerus) • The EC accepted a total budget

175,000 €

• EC funds for this WP are

105,000 €

• This money is destinated to identify a list of cancer indicators referring to rehabilitation (physical, social, psychological, nutritional…)

POSSIBLE WORKPLAN – 1st phase Description of tasks

Identification of key-groups (researchers, professionals, patient groups) in different MSs.

health care SC meeting is organised to reach consensus on WP6 work (i.e. organisation of activity by cancer site (breast and colorectal) and by rehabilitative domains).

Identification of different aspects of rehabilitation to be considered. Literature- and web-researches will be performed.

i.e. COCHRANE database and on US activities.

Proposal of initial proposed list of 30-40 possible indicators divided in the domains. EUROCHIP-form to be compiled (in the part on “desired indicator”).

1st DGS-R meeting with key-experts. Discussion on initial list by cancer site. Organisation of the sub-groups by cancer site.

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