Twinning project in local media

The Twinning project was presented on Slavonian television channel during regional workshops implemented in Osijek.The workshops were organized within activity 4.3 “Conducting regional workshops for 80 health professionals (in total) on organization and implementation of the National Cancer Screening Programmes; upon implementation of workshops the trainees should be enabled to further disseminate the obtained knowledge”, and activity 4.5 “Conducting regional workshops for 80 health professionals (in total) on monitoring and reporting of the National Cancer Screening Programmes; upon implementation of workshops the trainees should be enabled to further disseminate the obtained knowledge.”

During workshops held in Osijek, between 6 and 8 March 2017, representatives of the project Dinka Nakic, Nikola Kraljik, and Giedrius Vanagas, talked about the lack of a national strategy to combat malignant diseases in Croatia; about the importance of diagnosis and treatment, with particular emphasis on cervical cancer and the necessity of increasing the percentage of population vaccinated against HPV. The report can be viewed here: Slavonska televizija 1

Slavonian television channel also presented issues in the national programme for early detection of colorectal cancer during the workshop held in Osijek on March 14, 2017. Croatian experts Senka Samardžić, Nataša Antoljak and Nikola Kraljik talked about issues such as low participation rate (which amounts to about 20 percent), even though colorectal cancer is the second cause of mortality among the Croatian population (among men only after lung cancer, and among women only after breast cancer). Report can be viewed here: Slavonska televizija 2

During the workshop held in Osijek from 13 to 15 March 2017, representatives of the project Dinka Nakic, Nikola Kraljik, and Giedrius Vanagas talked about all three screening programmes in Croatia, as well as the Twinning project implemented by Lithuania and Slovenia in order to improve reporting and monitoring of screening programmes, and improving the quality control system of the screening process. Dr. Dinka Nakic and Nikola Kraljik expressed dissatisfaction with the response rate in all national programmes, emphasizing the fact that more than one hundred women die of cervical cancer in Croatia every year, even though the disease can be prevented by regular examinations and vaccination against HPV. The television report can be viewed here: Slavonska televizija 3

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