Group for Cancer Epidemiology and Registration in Latin Language Countries
50th Group for Cancer Epidemiology and Registration in
Latin Language Countries Annual Meeting
GRELL 2026
13th to 15th May
Dijon
France
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GRELL 2026 50th Scientific Conference 14th May
08:15 – 09:00
Registration, Posters visit & Exibition area
09:00 – 09:15
Opening of GREEL 2026
09:15 – 10:00
Franco Berrino​
History of research into diet and breast cancer
10:00 – 11:00
SESSION 1 - Epidemiological and clinical use of cancer registry data
A Bernasconi Impact of exclusion of adolescents and young adults with cancer from clinical trials in Europe: Epidemiological estimates from the EUROCARE-6 project
C Spychala Measuring cancer inequities after incarceration: population-based deterministic linkage in Geneva.
F Didonè Health-System and Economic Contexts in Neuroblastoma: Findings from the BENCHISTA Projec.
D Luce Contribution of Population-Based Cancer Registries to the Assessment of Cancer Incidence in an Occupational Cohort Exposed to Pesticides in the French Caribbean
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break, Posters visit & Exibition area
11:30 – 12:15
SESSION 2 - Data quality
M Sousa Completeness and Quality Assessment of the Portuguese National Cancer Registry: Insights from Mortality Data Comparison.​
T Martins Ramos Integrating Patient Navigation into Population-Based Cancer Registries: A Strategy to Improve Data Quality.​
M Dioguardi Mapping National Health Information Systems from a Cancer Registry Perspective: Availability and Accessibility of Cost-Related Data
12:15 – 12:45
FLASHTALKS: 5 parallel sessions of 5 flash talks each
SESSION 1 - Epidemiological and clinical use of cancer registry data #1
SESSION 2 - Epidemiological and clinical use of cancer registry data #2
SESSION 3 - New methods, innovation and AI applications
SESSION 4 - Survival and Incidence
SESSION 5 - Screening, social inequalities, data quality
12:45 – 14:00
Lunch break, Posters visit & exhibition area
14:00 – 15:00
SESSION 3 - Incidence, Survival
G Gatta The impact of stage at diagnosis in cancer survival by sex .
V Jooste Increasing incidence of early-onset colorectal cancer: impact of epidemiological classification changes​.
C Allemani Measuring progress towards the WHO GICC target an international Cancer Survival Index (CSI) from CONCORD-4
E Desandes Trends in the Incidence of Central nervous system (CNS) tumors among Children between 2000-2020: a study based on the French National Childhood Cancer Registry
15:00 – 16:00
CELEBRATING THE 50th GRELL SCIENTIFIC MEETING & GRELL GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Pascale Grosclaude (GRELL), Franco Berrino (GRELL), Jean-Michel Lutz (GRELL), Liesbeth Van Eycken (ENCR+IACR).
M Carulla The impact of GRELL cancer registries data: Who uses our data? A bibliometric analysis.
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break, Posters visit (and cake)
17:15 – 18:00
SESSION 4 - Epidemiological and clinical use of cancer registry data #2
N Le Stang Exploratory spatial analysis of cancer risk among people under 25 years old in Charente, a top-down approach.
G Silversmit Can spatial analysis of cancer incidence risk be interesting for your cancer registry? Results from Belgium.
B Lima Evaluating Comparability, Completeness, Validity, and Timeliness of Luxembourg’s Cancer Registry Data.
A Cunha Cancer incidence in Latin America and the Caribbean: an analysis based on population-based registrie.
W Tarupi National estimates of cancer incidence in Ecuador, 2022
17:15 – 18:00
SESSION 5 - Result from new Cancer Registries
H Boukheris Celebrating 10 years of National Cancer Registration in Algeria (2014-2023): A Milestone in Cancer Surveillance
C Mendonça Cancer Profile in Cape Verde: Report from the Population-Based Cancer Registry (ROCV) 2022-2024
E Muachissengue Establishing a Cancer Registry in Huila, Angola: Initial Results (2022-2023)
19:00
GALA DINNER - Cellier de Clairvaux