IKCC is a proud partner of the DISCERN Project – Discovering the Causes of Three Poorly Understood Cancers in Europe. It is a five-year project of the European Commission Cancer Mission to understand the causes of renal (kidney), pancreatic, and colorectal cancer in Europe and to help explain the geographical distribution of these cancer types, including their high incidence in central and eastern Europe.
Coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the DISCERN Project brings together a multidisciplinary consortium of 20 institutions from across Europe. The project started in January 2023 and is funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Horizon Europe Mission on Cancer.
IKCC has a unique role in the DISCERN Project to ensure that patients and caregivers are represented throughout, and results are relevant to the patient community, and that findings are communicated in plain language. The specific details of our role are outlined here in Work Package 7 (WP7).
For more information about the DISCERN Project, visit https://discern.iarc.who.int/.