Main Training Courses

• Trends and specific aspects of HPV driven cancer
• Revisiting the progress, practices and implementation of HPV based screening
• Updating HPV immunization worldwide, the state of the art and new challenges
• Recent developments in HPV research

Main Scientific Sessions

• Ecology of HPV in post vaccination era
• New triage approaches for HPV-positive women, what are the evidence?
• Pro-con- session - hot topics
• Vaccinating adult women & men – a new challenge for population at risk
• Methylation: from molecular biology to clinical practice
  • A. The role of viral genome methylation in the normal life cycle control and the pathogenesis of HPV
  • B. DNA methylation for screening and triage of ano-genital cancers
• Towards cervical cancer elimination: what do we need to know?
• Artificial intelligence - Digital pathology and machine learning applications for precision prevention of cervical cancer
• Challenges for HPV self-sampling as primary screening tool in organized cervical screening
• Cervical screening programs from a flow-chart point of view
• Risk-based HPV screening: switching from one-size-fits-all programs to personalized screening programs

Scientific Sessions

• Wider use of HPV self-sampling in screening programs: current practice
• Cervical cancers screening & immunization in low and middle income countries
• Updating triage methods in HPV-based screening, an international experience
• Effect of HIV on HPV and related cancers
• Cervical screening of vaccinated birth cohorts
• HPV and molecular testing of self-collected samples
• Update on next generation sequencing research
• First-void urine as a potential biomarker for triage of HPV and vaccine program follow-up
• Therapeutic options for low-risk HPV infections and disease
• Immune responses to HPV infection
• Screening for anal cancer precursors in women
• Total protection and durability of the HPV vaccines
• Validation of HPV assays for primary screening
• HPV-based screening for cervical cancer
  

Clinical Sessions

• The best strategies to prevent and to follow women after conisation for CIN3
  
• Risk and prevention of cervical cancers in post-menopausal women
  
• HPV assays from practice to research development
• LLETZ
  
• Cervical neoplasia - stump the expert
  
• Age to start and to stop screening and how it will change with HPV
• Treatment of anal cancer precursors
  
• Microbiome
  
• HPV vaccination and the use of new technologies in women at high risk of cervical disease
  
• Management/Colposcopy
• How to act against fake news, anti-vaccination movements and manipulation of public opinion?

Specialized Workshops

• HPV immunization
  
• Screening of cervical cancer
  
• Vulvar and anal diseases
  
• Colposcopy course
  

HPV and Head & Neck Forum

Workshop Francophone