ElisabeteWeiderpass International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)France

Elisabete Weiderpass-Vainio is a Brazilian cancer researcher who is Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a part of the World Health Organization. Her research considers the epidemiology and prevention of cancer.

Tuesday 09 June 2026

Time	Session

09:20 10:55	Symposium: Cancer Prevention CharlesSwanton Chair Francis Crick Institute & UCL Cancer InstituteUnited Kingdom Why aren’t We Preventing More Cancer Deaths? Opportunities for Precision Prevention Timothy R. Rebbeck Speaker Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthUnited States Proffered Paper: Noninvasive detection and subtyping of esophageal cancer by circulating cell-free mtDNA fragmentomics: a multi-center validation study EACR26-0091 EACR26-0091 JinliangXing Oral Presenter Fourth Military Medical UniversityChina From Research to Prevention: IARC’s Global Fight Against Cancer ElisabeteWeiderpass Speaker International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)France Proffered Paper: Plasma- and tissue-based miRNome profiling of male breast cancer cases for the identification of novel molecular biomarkers EACR26-1072 EACR26-1072 VirginiaPorzio Oral Presenter Sapienza University of RomeItaly Cancer prevention in the context of planetary health PaoloVineis Speaker Imperial College, School of Public HealthUnited Kingdom Room F6+7+8

Time

Session

09:20

10:55

Symposium: Cancer Prevention

CharlesSwanton Chair Francis Crick Institute & UCL Cancer InstituteUnited Kingdom

Why aren’t We Preventing More Cancer Deaths? Opportunities for Precision Prevention

Timothy R. Rebbeck Speaker Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthUnited States
Proffered Paper: Noninvasive detection and subtyping of esophageal cancer by circulating cell-free mtDNA fragmentomics: a multi-center validation study

EACR26-0091

EACR26-0091

JinliangXing Oral Presenter Fourth Military Medical UniversityChina
From Research to Prevention: IARC’s Global Fight Against Cancer

ElisabeteWeiderpass Speaker International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)France
Proffered Paper: Plasma- and tissue-based miRNome profiling of male breast cancer cases for the identification of novel molecular biomarkers

EACR26-1072

EACR26-1072

VirginiaPorzio Oral Presenter Sapienza University of RomeItaly
Cancer prevention in the context of planetary health

PaoloVineis Speaker Imperial College, School of Public HealthUnited Kingdom

Room F6+7+8