The seminars at Cancer Forum are divided in the same areas as The Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, to highlight these topics from a Swedish, European and International perspective with speakers from life science, healthcare, patient organisations, authorities and many more.
FOKUS Patient is grateful for the support from All.Can International and the European Cancer Organisation with creating the program.
For more information about each speaker, click on their name.
| TIME | MEETING ROOMS | ACTIVITIES – SEMINARS – SPEAKERS |
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| 08:45 | REGISTRATION OPENS Welcome to visit our exhibitors | |
| 09:30 | Hörsalen The auditorium | WELCOME BY – Penilla Gunther, Founder FOKUS Patient® & Member of the EU Cancer Mission Board, Sweden – Mike Morrissey, CEO European Cancer Organisation – Eduardo Pisani, CEO All.Can International |
| 09:40 | Hörsalen | KEY-NOTE SPEECH – Stella Kyriakides, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, European Commission. |
| 09:50 | Hörsalen | INTRODUCTION – A SWEDISH, NORDIC, EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER – Ulrika Årehed Kågström, President-Elect UICC – Union for International Cancer Control, Board Member of the Nordic Cancer Union and Secretary General Swedish Cancer Society |
| 10:00 | Hörsalen (in English) | THEME SESSION: PREVENTION
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| 10:15 parallell seminars | Hela världen (in Swedish) | A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND A HEALTHY SOCIETY – EXAMPLES
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| 10:15 parallell seminars | Hörsalen (in English) | THE EUROPEAN CODE AGAINST CANCER – EXAMPLES
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| 10:45 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:05 | Plenum, Hörsalen (in English) | THEME SESSION: EARLY DETECTION – DIAGNOSIS
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| 11:25 parallell seminars | Hela världen (in Swedish) |
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| 11:25 parallell seminars | Hörsalen (in English) | EU RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SCREENING, EXAMPLES FROM TWO AREAS
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| 12:05 | BREAK | |
| 12:10 | Plenum, Hörsalen | EUROPEAN CODE OF CANCER PRACTICE – Eskil Degsell, The Swedish Brain Tumour Organisation, Researcher, Karolinska Institute, Sweden – Penilla Gunther, Founder FOKUS Patient® & Member of the EU Cancer Mission Board, Sweden Moderator: |
| 12:35 | LUNCH | |
| 13:15 | Plenum, Hörsalen (in English) | THEME SESSIONS: NEW AND OLD TREATMENTS, WHAT’S HAPPENING?
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| 13:35 parallell seminars | Hela världen (in Swedish) |
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| 13:35 parallell seminars | Hörsalen (in English) |
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| 14:00 | BREAK | |
| 14:05 | Plenum, Hörsalen (in English) | THEME SESSIONS: QUALITY OF LIFE
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| 14:25 parallell seminars | Hela världen (in Swedish) |
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| 14:25 parallell seminars | Hörsalen (in English) |
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| 15:00 | BREAK | |
| 15:05 | THEME SESSION: REDUCE INEQUALITIES
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| 15:25 parallell seminars | Hela världen (in Swedish) |
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| 15:25 parallell seminars | Hörsalen (in English) |
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| 15:55 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16:10 | Plenum, Hörsalen | PANEL DISCUSSION
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| 16:40 | Plenum, Hörsalen | CLOSING SESSION
World Mental Health Day – October 10: “Cancer and Mental Health – body and brain connected”. Key-note speaker: Moderator: |
| 16:55 | THANK YOU FOR TODAY! | |
| 17:00 | IT’S NOT THE END… | |
| 19:00 | NETWORKING EVENT WITH FOOD, DRINKS AND MUSIC! Registration needed. |
Ann-Sofie Andersson Ward
Transformation leader Vision Zero Cancer, Sweden.
Björn Arvidsson
Managing Director, STUNS Life Science, Uppsala. Former Public Affairs, Roche Sweden.
Peter Baker
Director, Global Action on Men’s Health. GAMH’s mission is to create a world where all men and boys have the opportunity to achieve the best possible health and wellbeing wherever they live and whatever their backgrounds.
Olov Berggren
Secretary General, The Prostate Cancer Patient Organisation, Sweden.
Prof. Bettina Borisch
Global Health at the University of Geneva, and Medical Doctor and Histopathologist. CEO World Federation of Public Health Associations.
Hanna Brodda
Science journalist, Mediefy, Stockholm, Sweden.
Antonella Cardone
CEO Cancer Patients Europe. Former Director of the European Cancer Patient Coalition, Belgium.
Dr Christine Chomienne
Vice Chair of the EU Cancer Mission Board, and Professor in Cellular Biology, Université de Paris, France.
Norbert Couespel
Senior Coordinator, Policy Research and EU Projects, European Cancer Organisation.
Prof. Csaba Degi Lazlo
President Elect European Cancer Organisation, Executive Officer IPOS – International Psycho-Oncology Society and President, Romanian Association for Services and Communication in Oncology – APSCO.
Eskil Degsell
President, Swedish Brain Tumour Organisation. Researcher, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.
Cecilia Edström
Former CEO of Bactiguard AB. Board Member of A3P Biomedical and experienced Communication specialist in international companies.
Eva Eriksson
President of SPF Seniorerna -The Swedish Association for Senior Citizens. Former Member of Parliament, Regional Counsellor and Governor of The County of Värmland.
Lise-lott Eriksson
President, Myeloma Patients Europe.
Petra Eurenus
Senior Consultant in Life Science & Healthcare. Communication Specialist, Sweden.
Dr Marcela Ewing
Specialist oncology and general medicine, Regional Cancer Centre West and Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Dr Marius Geanta
President and Co-Founder la Centre for Innovation in Medicine. Medical Director McCann Health Brain & Heart, Romania.
Prof. Henrik Grönberg
Cancer Epidemiology, Karolinska Institute, Senior Consultant and Manager Prostate Cancer Centre, Capio St Göran, Stockholm, Sweden. Winner of the Cancer Researcher of the Year- Award 2022 from the Swedish Cancer Society.
Penilla Gunther
Founder, FOKUS Patient®. Former Member of Swedish Parliament. Member of board and steering committees, nationally and internationally.
Mattias Hellström
Co-Founder FOKUS Patient®, CEO Citizens Affairs AB.
Dr Matt Hickey
CEO, The Health Value Alliance,.a specialist research and analytics company, working to establish a standardised method for assessing, monitoring and improving health quality and patient-centric outcomes in oncology. Senior Medical Radiation Therapist, ex-head of Head of Cancer, AXA Health Insurance, UK.
Dr. Kjell Ivarsson
Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine and the National Co-ordinator for Cancer at the Swedish Local Authorities and Regions. Former Healthcare Director in the Region of Blekinge.
Maria Jernström
President, Swedish Sarcoma Patient Organisation.
Dr Johan Järte
Chief Radiologist, Senior Advisor, Lif SME, Sweden.
Stella Kyriakides
Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, European Commission.
Ida Kåhlin
President, Swedish Association of Occupational Therapists.
Therese Leijon
Secretary General at Young Cancer, Sweden. Former Organizational developer at the Swedish Red Cross and Vice President of the National Board of the Red Cross Youth.
Dr Francoise Menier
Member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine. Former Director General of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). She is the driving force for activities on the Right to be Forgotten movement, for cancer survivors.
Sophie Monsén Lerenius
Strategic Partership Manager, Precision Medicine Center Karolinska (PMCK), Kaolinska University Hospital, Sweden.
Mike Morrissey
CEO European Cancer Organisation. President of the European Society of Association Executives & Executive Director of the European Cancer Community Foundation.
Prof. Emer. Fred Nyberg
Biological Addiction Research, Uppsala University and its Forum for Pharmaceutical and Drug research, U-FOLD. Former President of International Narcotics Research Conference (INRC).
Eduardo Pisani
CEO All.Can International; a global multistakeholder non-profit organization focused on improving efficiency in cancer care.
Cecilia Ringborg Haddad
Postdoc, Research from the Wengstrom Group, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.
Fatane Salehi
Project Leader, Developer, Cancer Rehab, Vision Zero Cancer, Sweden.
Johan Spetz
PhD, Researching cell death regulation in radiation biology at University of Gothenburg, Formerly postdoc at Harvard School of Public Health.
Helén Stjerna
Secretary General, The A Non-Smoking Generation organization, Sweden.
Mattias Styrman
Member of the Board, Swedish Lung Cancer Association TBC
Mats Thyrstrup
Vision Zero Cancer Researcher and associate professor, Leading Health Care Foundation, Sweden.
Helena Torsler Andersson
Nurse and expert oncolocy, medical writer, The Swedish Cancer Society.
Helena Ullgren
President-elect European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS), Cancer nurse, PhD, Karolinska Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sweden.
Pia Watkinson
Secretary General, The Cancer Rehab Fund, Sweden.
Dr Elisabete Weiderpass
Director of IARC – International Agency for Research on Cancer / World Health Organization. Member of the EU Commission Cancer Mission Board. Former Head of Research department Cancer Registry, Norway and Professor of Medical and Cancer Epidemiology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.
Eleanor Wheeler
Associate Director of Research and Policy; Programme Lead, Lung cancer, Lung Cancer Policy Network, UK.
Hans Winberg
Secretary General, The Leading Health Care Foundation, Sweden.
Ulrika Årehed Kågström
Secretary General Swedish Cancer Society, Chairman Swedish Arts Council. President-elect UICC (Union for International Cancer Control) & Board Member NCU (Nordic Cancer Union).