CancerPrev is an internationally recognized platform with a dual mission: to develop personalized approaches to cancer prevention and to connect biomedical science and medicine with individuals across cultures and generations.
Differences matter : Cancer is not one disease, and we are all different. Cancer prevention – primary, secondary and tertiary – needs to be tailored to each person, as susceptibility to different types of cancer varies substantially according to sex, ancestry, family history and lifestyle.
Age is a key cancer risk factor – but traditional boundaries across generations are shifting. Several cancer types once associated predominantly with older age are occurring increasingly in younger generations, with recent evidence linking this trend to accelerated biological aging.
Differences among individuals and populations also shape our societies. CancerPrev uses rigorous science and insights from medicine and cancer prevention as common ground to connect people across geographical, cultural and social boundaries.
Understand differences. Prevent cancer. Build connections.
WHAT We Do
PREVENT CANCER
We focus on how sex hormones, genetic background and aging impact cancer susceptibility, with particular emphasis on skin and head/neck cancer and on lobular breast carcinoma, a major form of slow-growing breast cancer that is difficult to detect and for which effective management remains a major challenge.
CONNECT MEDICINE AND SOCIETY
We create opportunities to motivate and empower young people through personal engagement, fellowship programs, and virtual and in-person summer schools and workshops.
We run a unique Medicine & Society Seminar Series with a special focus on the “human factor,” in which world leaders in cancer research and other disciplines share their life stories and scientific trajectories to engage and inspire younger generations.
VIRTUALLY THERE
CancerPrev is a “virtual institute”, not physically limited to a single location, but based on a dynamic and open platform to facilitate equitable global collaborations that work towards a common goal.
Who We Are
CancerPrev is an international community aiming to bring together researchers in cancer and medicine at different stages of their careers, patient advocates, artists, musicians and the general public, around a shared interest in cancer prevention and the connections between medicine and society.
Our Junior Membership Program gives younger scientists an active role in the CancerPrev community, while collaborations with international research and cancer organizations extend our reach across countries and populations.
Studium, our meeting place in the Italian Alps, provides a physical home for this international community, where science, medicine and culture come together through workshops, summer schools and informal exchange across generations and backgrounds.
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Become a Partner
Develop, invent and drive new scientific, educational or societal initiatives with us.
Support our Fellowship Program, giving talented young scientists opportunities for international research, training and exchange.
Participate in and help shape our Summer Schools, bringing together young people from different countries and backgrounds to learn, exchange ideas and build connections.
Prevent Cancer. Create Opportunity. Connect People.
BECOME A PARTNER | SUPPORT A FELLOWSHIP | ENGAGE IN SUMMER SCHOOLS