These events were held in Oporto from May 27 to 30, 2025, and are considered a true meeting point for professionals in the health care field
Professionals from the Oncology, Translational, Epidemiological and Clinical Research Group (GIOTEC) of the Institut d’Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili and the Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus, have participated in the 49th Congress of the Group of Cancer Epidemiology and Registration in Latin Language Countries (GRELL) and the congress Oporto (Portugal) from 27 to 30 May 2025.
The GRELL congress is the international meeting point for professionals of Latin Language Cancer Registries where results and experiences in Cancer Epidemiology are shared. This year, the GRELL congress was held jointly with the ENCR congress, in which the European Cancer Registries participated, allowing the exchange of experiences, work, knowledge and future projects by professionals from Europe and Latin America.
The doctors of the University Hospital Sant Joan de Reus Jaume Galceran and Marià Carulla, with the biomedical Clàudia Pla, the statistician Alberto Ameijide and the nurse Araceli Jiménez presented two oral communications, which were related to the methodology of cancer estimates in Spain, on the time to cure in how they dealt with cervical cancer, pancreatic cancer, bone cancer and triple negative breast cancer.