Project description
Personalised tools for cancer prevention in Eastern Europe
Primary cancer prevention is widely recognised as a shared responsibility involving citizens, healthcare professionals, and decision makers. The EU-funded 4P-CAN project seeks to gain a comprehensive understanding of the complex factors influencing cancer risk at the national, community, and individual levels. Drawing from a multidisciplinary approach, including insights from the European Code Against Cancer, implementation research, social sciences and humanities (SSH), behavioural sciences, and innovative technology, the project aims to develop personalised tools for primary cancer prevention in Central and Eastern European countries through Living Labs. It also aims to implement tailored communication campaigns on cancer prevention. Integral to the broader EU Cancer Mission, the project ultimately aims to reduce cancer risk factors, improve prevention, and address inequalities.
Objective
With a strong belief that primary prevention of cancer represents a collective responsibility (citizens, professionals, decision-makers), during a 4 year period, 4P-CAN builds on an innovative vision to understand the complex system that surrounds the citizen, the person, and how it increases the risk for cancer on three major levels - macro (at the national level), meso/mezzo (at the community level) and micro (at the individual level). Following the European Code Against Cancer recommendations as a narrative reference and combining implementation research (including economic sciences), social sciences and humanities (SSH), together with behavioral sciences, and innovative technological approaches, 4P-CAN ultimately delivers new personalized tools for primary prevention of cancer in Central and Eastern European countries from the consortium. The co-created knowledge is then used to personalize the primary prevention interventions through Living-labs and implement personalized communication campaigns on cancer prevention.
The project will focus on some of the main modifiable risk factors for cancer occurrence: smoking, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, excess body weight (overweight and obesity), HPV and HBV infections preventable through vaccination, as well as environmental pollution (including radon), and the understanding of the barriers in front of the policy implementation and individual adherence to healthy behaviors in countries from Eastern Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, Republic of Moldova, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Ukraine), to improve as a consequence the primary prevention activities and reduce the inequalities.
Altogether, 17 organizations from 11 different countries are getting together to achieve these goals, i.e. Balkan countries (EU Member States and non-EU Member States), part of CEE: Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro; Republic of Moldova and Ukraine; and Western EU countries (Portugal, Italy, France, Ireland, Belgium).
This action is part of the Cancer Mission cluster of projects on ‘Prevention and early detection’.
Fields of science
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrynoble gases
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesinfectious diseasesDNA viruseshepatitis B
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineoncology
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- social sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systems
Keywords
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.2.1 - Health Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
032266 Bucharest
Romania