AWARH 2020: Alcohol and Cancer Event

AWARH 2020 Event: Alcohol and Cancer

The focus in this event will be the links between alcohol and cancer and the forthcoming Europe Beating Cancer Plan. In conjunction with this event, WHO Europe is also launching its new factsheet for policy makers, Alcohol and Cancer in the WHO European Region.

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Programme

15:00  Welcome and introductions

• Tiziana Codenotti, Eurocare President

15:10  Alcohol and Cancer

• Nino Berdzuli, Director, WHO Regional Office Europe, World Health Organization

15:20  The impact of Alcohol drinking to the burden of Cancer in WHO European Region

• Isabelle Soerjomataram, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

15:30 WHO’s new Alcohol and Cancer factsheet: Appeal for better prevention

• Carina Ferreira-Borges, European Office for the Prevention and Control of NCDs, WHO Regional Office for Europe

15:40. How many cancers can we prevent when increasing alcohol excise tax?

• Jürgen Rehm, Institute for Mental Health Policy Research & Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Canada

15:50  Alcohol and Digestive Cancer – a need for action

• Marcus Peck, United European Gastroenterology (UEG)

16:00. Alcohol and liver cancer – need for action

• Alejandro Forner, European Association for the study of the liver

16:10  Conclusions

• Tiziana Codenotti, Eurocare President

16:15 Finish