News & Events

From 29 September to 1 October 2026, the European Commission is organising the event: 5 Years EU Cancer Mission: Stronger Through Connection. This event starts from this question: What happens when Europe connects research, innovation, policies, and people around one shared goal?  Significant breakthroughs for better cancer control. Researchers, clinicians, policymakers, patients, innovators, funders and […]

On 26 November 2026, the LUCIA project will join forces with DIOPTRA, SANGUINE, MammoScreen, ONCOSCREEN and PANCAID projects for our Open Day Event in Liège, Belgium, titled: “From research and scientific evidence to game-changing innovation in the clinical practice”. The projects will present key results and innovations and explore how these can contribute to translating […]

The European Public Health Conference (EPH) will be hosted in Bilbao, Spain, from 11 to 13 November 2026. The LUCIA project had several abstracts accepted and will present: One pitch presentation The LUCIA project: understanding determinants to improve lung cancer screening and early detection Two poster displays Should current lung cancer screening inclusion criteria be […]

From 23 to 27 October 2026, the LUCIA project will be present at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress in Madrid. Link to the event

On 27 May 2025, the LUCIA project held a hybrid scientific evening titled “Lung Cancer can’t wait – Prevent it, Detect it early, Save Lives” in Bilbao, Spain. Aligning with the objectives of the Cancer Mission to ensure that early detection initiatives lead to meaningful health improvements, the event featured participation from leading experts, physicians, […]

The LUCIA project aims to develop prediction models for early diagnosis of lung cancer (LC) based on the identification of risk factors and a deeper cellular understanding, by the register of real-world data. These models will allow the implementation of new clinical pathways and diagnosis workflow to ensure early diagnosis and confirmation, including subtypes of […]

If you represent a stakeholder group, organization or other lung cancer/ cancer screening related projects out of our scope, please reach out to us and we will be happy to include you in the following steps of finding potential solutions for the identified barriers.   Answer the open call for interest form https://forms.office.com/r/rJ8cLAxDct You can […]

In March 2025, the Prevention & Early Detection (Screening) cluster released its third newsletter!   In this edition, all the cluster projects (LUCIA, DIOPTRA, MammoScreen, ONCOSCREEN, PANCAID and SANGUINE) each present one of their key elements!   Read the newsletter here!   If you want to know more about the projects, follow our social media […]

Organised by LUCIA’s partner UPM (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid), the CBMS conference focuses on computer-based medical systems and is one of the main conferences within the fields of medical informatics and biomedical informatics. The conference will be held in Madrid in June 2025.

The LUCIA partners met in-person on 26 and 27 May 2025 in Bilbao, Spain, on the invitation of our partner IIS Biobizkaia. During these two days, partners discussed the advancements of the project by work packages. It was the occasion to see the developments in the technical and clinical aspects, as well as the interesting […]