AFCRN LGCW Online Meeting, Nov 15th, 2021 (10.30am GMT, 1 hour)

Moderators: Eric Chokunonga

  1. The African Cancer Registry Network (Eric Chokunonga, Manager,  Zimbabwe National Cancer Registry, Zimbabse)
  2. Trends in the incidence of the major cancers in sub Saharan Africa (Elima Jedy-Agba, senior researcher, International Research Center of Excellence, Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria)
  3. Survival from cancer in sub Saharan Africa (Yvonne Joko, Research Fellow, International Agency for Research on Cancer)
  4. The Southern Africa Childhood Cancer Registry (Natasha Abraham, epidemiologist, National Cancer Registry, South Africa)
  5. Creating a national cancer registry network - the Tanzania experience (Gisbert Mswiga, Consultant, Vital Strategies, Tanzania)
  6. Staging with Essential TNM in African registries (Biying Liu, Researcher, African Cancer Registry Network, Oxford)

Our article “The evolving epidemic of breast cancer in sub‐Saharan Africa: Results from the African Cancer Registry Network” published in the International Journal of Cancer (IJC) has been selected for a special online Virtual Issue. This manuscript was prepared by Dr Yvonne Joko-Fru, supervised by Dr Max Parkin and Dr Paul McGale (Uni of Oxford). 

What's new?

The Enrico Anglesio Prize is awarded every year to a young cancer epidemiology researcher, in two occasions:

  1. It has been part of the regular programme and prize awarded at the IACR's Annual Scientific Conference; and 

  2. At the yearly Groupe pour l’Epidémiologie et l’Enregistrement du cancer dans les Pays de Langue Latine (GRELL) Meeting.

With the cancellation of conferences for 2020 due to COVD-19, the Fondo Elena Moroni and the scientific committee of the Enrico Anglesio prize decided to organise a Enrico Anglesio Prize virtual.  

For the virtual prize, candidates are invited to present a written paper on their work on cancer epidemiology and/or cancer registration, that, in normal times, they would have presumably given as an oral presentation at the IACR or GRELL conference, and subsequently submitted for publication in a Journal.  READ more of the prize details and rules here:  https://www.fondoelenamoroni.org/en/the-prize/