We are pleased to publish the provisional agenda for the Open Forum in Rome on 19-20 June. The Open Forum will be hosted by the Italian Ministry of Health and will feature the themes of Cancer Promotion and Prevention and Cancer Information and Data.

Please find the provisional agenda here, we will be opening registrations to the Open Forum next week.

To see the provisional agenda for the Open Forum, please click here.

We are pleased to announce that registration for the Open Forum in Rome is now open! To attend the conference, please register at this link.

Please note that June is peak season in Rome - for this reason, we have block reservations of rooms for EPAAC guests at several hotels in the vicinity of the Open Forum venue (Ministry of Health, for more information, please click here. 

To see the recommended list of hotels for EPAAC guests, please click here.

To book a room at one of the recommended hotels, please fill in the relevant registration form and send to the address specified in the form, as well as CC to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . To access hotel registration forms, please click here.

We would like to open our call for posters for the EPAAC Open Forum in Rome on 19- 20 June 2012, hosted by the Italian Ministry of Health.

The posters should be A0 format and related to the themes of EPAAC; posters on the theme of Cancer Promotion and Prevention and Cancer Information and Data are particularly welcome, as these will be the themes of this year's Open Forum.

To display your poster at the Open Forum, please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with your poster proposal. The deadline for poster proposals is Friday, 1 June 2012.

To see posters from the previous Open Forum in Madrid, please see our e-conference book here.

The first Workshop project team meeting of the CEN Workshop 68 on "Quality criteria for health checks" will take place on 23-25 May 2012 in the Hague, the Netherlands. During this meeting the project team will review source materials and prepare the first draft for workshop consideration.
You can find the related Source documents to be discussed at the CEN Workshop 68 on "Quality criteria for health checks here.

In the spirit of the European Week Against Cancer, the EPAAC Health Promotion and Prevention team is organising flash mob events on May 26 2012, in Rome, Paris, Barcelona and Ankara to encourage youth involvement in the dissemination of the European Code against Cancer (http://www.cancercode.eu/).

European dancers are invited to participate using the same music and choreography as shown here.
On May 23, a flash mob will be held at 5pm in Brussels, Carrefour de l'Europe (between Gare Centrale and Hotel Meridien). Rehearsal will be at 4pm, in Parc Royal (kiosque à musique).
For more information please visit: http://www.europeancancerleagues.org/ewac/european-week-against-cancer-2012.html.