Academic Centre
Objective: To update UEGW participants on the current status and ongoing activities in gastric cancer screening in Europe and network with the other activities globally
When: Sunday, October 13, 10:00 - 11:30
Where: Room: Lehar 1
Messe Wien
Entrance A
Messeplatz 1
1020 Vienna, Austria
Program of the Meeting
Chairs. Colm O’Morain, Francis Megraud, Richard Hunt
Brief Intro and welcome by the chairs. 10 min.
Overview of the Recommendations of the European Council and ongoing projects. Mārcis Leja. 15 min.
10 years since the last IARC Working Group Report: What have we learned and where should we aim to go and how? Jin Young Park. 15 min.
Primary prevention initiatives; Eurohelican, TOGAS. The preliminary observations. Bojan Tepeš. 10 min.
Secondary prevention efforts. Jan Bornschein. 10 min.
Pilot planned within EUCanScreen Joint Action: H.pylori antigen in combination to FIT screening. Mārcis Leja. 10 min.
Panel discussion. 20 min.
The meeting is organized in collaboration between the European Helicobacter and Microbiota Study Group, Healthy Stomach Initiative and the EU supported projects Eurohelican, TOGAS, EUCanScreen
The meeting will be followed by the Healthy Stomach Initiative annual meeting to take place in the same room 11:30-13.00
