Europa Uomo contributed to an EAU event on early detection in Europe

Doctors, patients, researchers and policymakers – including Europa Uomo representatives – gathered at the offices of the European Association of Urology (EAU) in Brussels to discuss the way forward for prostate cancer screening.

A presentation from Europa Uomo’s Vice Chairman Erik Briers made the patient perspective clear: prostate cancer screening should find cancer when curable, decrease the number of metastases at diagnosis, decrease the number of prostate cancer deaths and ensure that low risk cancer is not treated actively but with active surveillance.

The main topic of discussion was the three-year Praise-U project that aims to promote early detection and diagnosis of prostate cancer in EU countries. Praise-U aims to develop and test a flexible protocol for conducting risk-based screening approaches which will find significant prostate cancers.

There were reports from Praise-U prostate cancer screening project pilot sites in Lithuania and Spain. Monique Roobol from Erasmus University in the Netherlands spoke about the Praise-U knowledge hub and urologist Peter Albers from Heinrich-Heine-University in Germany covered prostate cancer centres of excellence.

Hein van Poppel of EAU (pictured) introduced the event and spoke about Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan and prostate cancer.