The Prize

The Fondo Elena Moroni for Oncology

is pleased to announce

the 2024 WINNERS of

The Enrico Anglesio Prize

and

Special Prizes

Elvo Tempia

and

Harald zur Hausen

The Enrico Anglesio Prize. Offered by the Fondo Elena Moroni, Turin, Italy. This prize goes to the best absolute scoring.

Here, in the linked video, a profile of Enrico Anglesio and the history the Prize from its definition and through the first 17 years: https://youtu.be/b5XZok-m50o

The Enrico Anglesio Prize

Enrico Anglesio (1908 – 2003)

Graduated in medicine in 1933, was a pioneer of modern oncology and chemotherapy in Italy. He contributed to research on lymphomas and founded one of the first Cancer Registries in the Southern European region, directing the coordination bodies of descriptive epidemiology. Enrico Anglesio had an active role in the UICC and was National Councillor and President of the Turin branch of the Italian League Against Cancer. He wrote several scientific publications, a digest of practical oncology and a brief history of oncology.

The Enrico Anglesio Prize 2024
Offered by the Fondo Elena Moroni

went to:

Ellis Slotman, Department of Research and Development- IKNL, Utrecht, The Netherlands for her work on:
“Guidelines versus real-world data in metastatic bladder cancer: a population-based study on first-line chemotherapy treatment patterns“

The Elvo Tempia Special Prize. Offered by the Fondazione Tempia, Biella, Italy. The Prize goes to the youngest best scoring candidate in the first third of the ranking after the absolute winner.

The Elvo Tempia Special Prize

Elvo Tempia Valenta (1920 – 2004)

A young men during World War II, Mr Tempia joined the Italian patriotic troops that flanked the Allied armies in fighting the Nazis.
After the end of the war, he committed himself as a local politician and trade union leader. His long political and civil engagement culminated with the election as a member of the Italian National Parliament.
A family tragedy that happened during the eighties, the death due to cancer of a young son, stimulated Mr Tempia to establish The Fondo Edo Tempia, an advocacy organization based in Biella, Piedmont. The organization rapidly expanded as one of the largest in its country, with activities in health education, in primary cancer prevention and screening, and in assuring support to research laboratories and hospital departments.

The Elvo Tempia Special Prize 2024
Offered by the Tempia Foundation

went to:

Flurina Suter, Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology –Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, Zurich, Switzerland, for her work:
“Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on cancer stage distribution and time to treatment initiation using Swiss cantonal cancer registry data”

A NEW SPECIAL PRIZE FOR LMIC’s COMPETITORS

Starting from the 2024 edition, a new Special Prize has been established within the EAP System and intended for competitors from LMICs. It replaces the Sharon Whelan Special Prize, and it is dedicated to the memory of Professor Harald zur Hausen (1936 – 2023), Nobel Prize laureate for medicine in 2008

The HARALD zur HAUSEN SPECIAL PRIZE FOR LMIC’s COMPETITORS

Dr. Roberto Zanetti, FEM President, introduces the dedicatee of the new Special Prize

” I met Professor zur Hausen in Geneva in 2006 at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the UICC, Union for International Cancer Control, to which I was freshly elected, and that zur Hausen attended as the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Cancer, the official journal of the UICC. That meeting happened a couple of years before zur Hausen was awarded the Nobel Prize, and some years after the appearance of the papers by Nubia Munoz and colleagues providing the final epidemiological demonstration that HPV infection is the cause of cervical cancer. During the meeting, Professor zur Hausen shortly reported about the IJC, and I have a precise memory of the clarity of his summary and the modesty of his attitude. Who was this man, and why short later he was he awarded the Nobel Prize? “

HARALD zur HAUSEN, 1936 – 2023

” Against the prevailing view during the 1970s, Harald zur Hausen postulated a role for human papillomavirus (HPV) in cervical cancer. He assumed that the tumour cells if they contained an oncologic virus, should harbour viral DNA integrated into their genomes. The HPV genes promoting cell proliferation should therefore be detectable by specifically searching tumour cells for such viral DNA. Harald zur Hausen pursued this idea over 10 years by searching for different HPV types, a search made difficult by the fact that only parts of the viral DNA were integrated into the host genome. He found novel HPV-DNA in cervix cancer biopsies and then discovered the new, tumorigenic HPV 16 type in 1983. In 1984 he cloned HPV 16 and 18 from patients with cervical cancer. The HPV types 16 and 18 were consistently found in about 70% of cervical cancer biopsies throughout the world.

The global public health burden attributable to HPV is considerable. More than 5% of all cancers worldwide are caused by persistent infection with this virus. Infection by HPV is the most common sexually transmitted agent, afflicting 50-80 % of the population. Of the more than 100 HPV types known, about 40 infect the genital tract and 15 of these put women at high risk for cervical cancer. In addition, HPV is found in some vulval, penile, oral and other cancers. HPV can be detected in 99,7% of women with histologically confirmed cervical cancer, afflicting some 500.000 women per year.

Harald zur Hausen demonstrated novel properties of HPV that led to an understanding of mechanisms for papillomavirus-induced carcinogenesis and the predisposing factors for viral persistence and cellular transformation. He made HPV 16 and 18 available to the scientific community. Vaccines were ultimately developed that provide > 95% protection from infection by the high-risk HPV 16 and 18 types. The vaccines may also reduce the need for surgery and the global burden of cervical cancer. ” *

* from the Nobel Prize official website

Harald zur Hausen was born in 1936 in Gersenkirchen. He graduated in medicine in 1960 and started a career as a virologist. From 1983 to 2003 he chaired the Scientific Board of the German Cancer Institute, the DKFZ. He passed away in Heidelberg in March 2023.

The Harald zur Hausen Prize 2024
went to:

Natalia Godoy Casabuenas, Department of Clinical Epidemiology – Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotà, Colombia for her work:
“Age-period-cohort effects on incidence of childhood leukaemia from four population-based cancer registries in Colombia “

Recorded Video of the AWARD CEREMONY 2024

The Winners of the Enrico Anglesio Prize 2023

The Enrico Anglesio Prize. Offered by the Fondo Elena Moroni, Turin, Italy. This prize goes to the best absolute scoring.

Here, in the linked video, a profile of Enrico Anglesio and the history the Prize from its definition and through the first 17 years: https://youtu.be/b5XZok-m50o

The Enrico Anglesio Prize 2023
Offered by the Fondo Elena Moroni

went to:

Alice Bernasconi, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy for her work on:
“Artificial Intelligence and Cancer Registry Data to predict Rare Events in Cancer Survivors”

The Elvo Tempia Special Prize. Offered by the Fondazione Tempia, Biella, Italy. The Prize goes to the youngest best scoring candidate in the first third of the ranking after the absolute winner.

The Elvo Tempia Special Prize 2023
Offered by the Tempia Foundation

went to:

Giulia Capitoli, Bicocca, Bioinformatics Biostatistics and Bioimaging Center, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy for her work:
“Complete Blood Count Test in children and adolescent with Trisomy 21: definition of syndrome-specific reference intervals to detect evolution into onco-hematologic pathology”

The Sharon Whelan Special Prize. Offered by the International Association of Cancer registries, Lyon, France. This prize goes to the best scoring candidate coming from a Low-Middle Income Country

The Sharon Whelan Special Prize

Sharon L Whelan (1948 – 2016)

Sharon Whelan joined the staff of the Descriptive Epidemiology Unit at the International Agency for Research on Cancer few years after the establishment of that Institution in Lyon. There she spent her whole career, in the position of research assistant. Sharon’s main tasks have been two.
First, she was, beside the chief of the Unit, the person behind the planning, the collection of the data, and the editing of the well known international compendium Cancer Incidence in Five Continents.
Second, she assured for decades the organization of the activities of the International Association of Cancer Registries, the IACR, whose office is hosted at the IARC premise in Lyon. After retiring from the Agency, Sharon remained active with the Association, and in particular she authored the first contribution on its history, a long journal article appeared on the Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

The Sharon Whelan Special Prize 2023
Offered by the International Association of Cancer Registries

went to:

Adriana Valdemar-Jiménez, Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, Bogota, Colombia for her work:
“Factors associated with Loneliness in Colombian Cancer Patients”

SPECIAL WAIVER: The five best competitors in the category Methods & Originality have been granted a waiver to publish their articles free of charge in a Special issue of Cancers.

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cancers/about

The SPECIAL WAIVER PRIZE 2023

went to:

Alice Bernasconi, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy:
“Artificial Intelligence and Cancer Registry Data to predict Rare Events in Cancer Survivors

Giulia Capitoli, Bicocca, Bioinformatics Biostatistics and Bioimaging Center, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy: “Complete Blood Count Test in children and adolescent with Trisomy 21: definition of syndrome-specific reference intervals to detect evolution into onco-hematologic pathology”

Dafina Petrova, Andalusian School of Public Health – Cancer Registry of Granada, Spain: “Socio-economic inequalities in adherence to clinical practice guidelines for breast cancer diagnosis and treatment: using registry data to evaluate equity in cancer care”

Laura Schumann, Insitute of Socialmedicine and Epidemiology, University of Luebeck, Germany: “Lead-Time Corrected Effect on Breast Cancer Survival in Germany by Mode of Detection”

Karianne Svendsen, The Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway: “How did Breast Cancer Patients fare during and after the Covid-19 pandemic compared to controls?”

Results of the past editions

IACR Round 2022

Enrico Anglesio Prize

Mojca Birk, Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Slovenia: “Impact of Indoor Radon exposure on Lung Cancer Incidence in Slovenia“

Elvo Tempia Special Prize

Irmina Maria Michalek, Polish National Cancer Registry, Poland: “Risk of suicidal death in cancer patients aged 75 years and older in Poland, 2009-2019“

Sharon Whelan Special Prize

Thilagavathi Ramamoorthy, Indian Council of Medical Research – National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research, Bengaluru, India: “Utilization and adherence to clinical practice guidelines in cancer care: A study among physicians from Hospital Based Cancer Registries in India“

Here are the recorded videos of the year 2022 Award Ceremony
and Finalists’ Video Presentations

IACR Round 2021

Enrico Anglesio Prize

Marissa Corine van Maaren, Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL), The Netherlands: “Socioeconomic inequalities in young breast cancer patients: jointly modelling recurrences
and mortality using registry data”

Elvo Tempia Special Prize

Federica Zamagni, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST), IRCCS Epidemiology Unit and Emilia-Romagna Cancer Registry, section of Romagna University, Italy : “Decreasing thickness and enhanced therapy have both contributed to the 2010s increase in survival from melanoma in Italy”

Sharon Whelan Special Prize

Rym Mallekh, National Institute of Health, Tunisia, for her work:
“Burden of cancer attributable to excess body weight in Tunisia in 2019“

Here are the recorded videos of the year 2021 Award Ceremony
and Finalists’ Video Presentations

IACR Round 2020

Enrico Anglesio Prize

Diana R. Withrow, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA: “Trends in non-malignant brain tumors incidence by source of diagnosis in USA, 2004-17”

Elvo Tempia Special Prize

Christiane Rudolph, University of Lubeck, Germany: “Breast cancer survival in German-Danish border regions”

Sharon Whelan Special Prize

Wilmer Tarupi, UTE University, Quito, Ecuador: “Educational inequalities in gastric cancer incidence and mortality, Quito 1996-2015”

Here are the recorded videos of the year 2020 Award Ceremony
and Finalists’ Video Presentations

PALMARES

Round 2010-2024, participants by country

Edition	Winner	Countries	Total number of participants
Yokohama 2010	Japan	Japan (2), Korea, Netherlands, Spain, UK (2)	7
Mauritius 2011	Indonesia	Indonesia, Nigeria, South Korea	3
Cork 2012	Ireland	Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, UK	6
Buenos Aires 2013	Morocco	Brazil, Italy, Morocco, Portugal	4
Ottawa 2014	Portugal	Canada(2), Colombia, Portugal, USA	5
Mumbai 2015	Australia	Australia, Canada, India(3), Kenya(2), Nigeria, Slovakia	9
Marrakesh 2016	Italy	Argentina, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Morocco, UK(3), USA	10
Utrecht 2017	Netherlands	Belgium, France (2), Germany, India, Italy, Netherlands(4), Russia	11
Arequipa 2018	Estonia	Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Estonia, Japan (2), France, South Africa	8
Vancouver 2019	USA	Brazil, Canada (2), Japan (2), Libya, Mauritius, Nepal, UK (2), USA (9)	19
2020 Virtual	USA	Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Italy, Japan (2), Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, UK (2), USA (2)	15
2021 Virtual	Netherlands	Canada (2), China (2), Colombia (2), Germany, India (3), Italy (6), Kenia, Mexico, Netherlands (8), Portugal, Slovenia (2), Spain, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia (2), USA	35
2022 Virtual	Slovenia	Belgium, China, Germany, India (2), Iran(2), Italy(4), Netherland, Poland, Slovenia (2), Togo, Vietnam	17
Granada 2023	Italy	Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy (2), Japan (2), Kenia, Norway, Portugal, Rwanda, Slovenia	16
2024 Virtual	Netherlands	Belgium, Brazil, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany (3), India, Iran, Italy (6), Netherlands, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, USA	23

Special Prize Elvo Tempia

Edition	Winner
2020 Virtual	Germany
2021 Virtual	Italy
2022 Virtual	Poland
Granada 2023	Italy
2024 Virtual	Switzerland

Special Prize Harald zur Hausen

Edition	Winner
2024 Virtual	Colombia

Special Prize Sharon Whelan

Edition	Winner
2020 Virtual	Ecuador
2021 Virtual	Tunisia
2022 Virtual	India
Granada 2023	Colombia

Round GRELL, participants by country

Country of the Candidates	Edition
Country of the Candidates	Mallorca 2006	Montreal 2007	Parma 2008	Lugano 2009	Toledo 2010	Caen 2011	Porto 2012	Siracusa 2013	Genève 2014	Reus 2015	Albi 2016	Total	Winner
Belgium	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	1
Brazil	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Colombia	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	3	1
France	0	1	1	2	0	3	2	2	3	2	3	19	5
Italy	4	2	2	1	1	0	2	5	2	0	3	22	2
Portugal	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	1
Romania	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
Spain	0	1	1	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	8	0
Switzerland	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	6	2
Total	4	5	5	6	7	4	9	7	7	4	9	67	12

The number of winners is different from the number of editions, due to the duplication of the prize in 2008.

2019 Laureate

Round IACR

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Vancouver (Canada) on 13 June 2019 to Quinn Ostrom, Houston, Texas for her presentation of the study “Relative survival after diagnosis with a primary brain or other CNS tumor in the National Program of Cancer Registries, 2001-2014”.

The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Neuro-Oncology Practice (XX, 1–7, 2019 doi:10.1093/nop/npz059) with the title “Relative survival after diagnosis with a primary brain or other central nervous system tumor in the National Program of Cancer Registries, 2004 to 2014“.

2018 Laureate

Round IACR

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Arequipa (Peru) on 15 November 2018 to Keiu Paapsi, Tallin, Estonia for her presentation of the study “Population-based survival trends in childhood cancer in Estonia, 1970–2014”.

2017 Laureate

Round IACR

The Prize Enrico Anglesio has been awarded in Utrecht (The Netherlands) on 19 September 2017 to Simone Versteed of Utrecht for her presentation of the study “Centralization of cancer surgery and the impact on patients’ travel burden”

Since the study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Health Policy with the title “Centralisation of cancer surgery and the impact on patients’ travel burden” the prize money doubled.

2016 Laureate

Round IACR

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Marrakesh (Morocco) on 21 October 2016 to Lidia Sacchetto, Torino, Italy, for her presentation of the study “In situ, thin and thick melanoma in Europe: how and where are they increasing?”.

The study has been published in the peer-reviewed European Journal of Cancer with the title “Trends in incidence of thick, thin and in situ melanoma in Europe”.

Round GRELL

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Albi (France) on 6 May 2016 to Daniel Jurado, Pasto, Colombia, for his presentation of the study “Exploring social causal pathways for cervical cancer survival in low and middle-income settings”.

2015 Laureates

Round IACR

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Mumbai (India) on 10 October 2015 to Hanna Tervonen, Adelaide, Australia for her presentation of the study “Cancer survival and summary stage among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in NSW”.

Round GRELL

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Reus (Spain) on 15 May 2015 to David Jegou, Bruxelles, Belgium for his presentation of the study “Trends in Incidence: a proposal to automatically check the linearity assumption for calculation of EAPC.”

2014 Laureates

Round IACR

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Ottawa (Canada) on 28 June 2014 to Clara Castro, Porto, Portugal for her presentation of the study “Predicting cancer incidence in the north of Portugal for the years 2013, 2015 and 2020”.

Since the study was published in the peer-reviewed journal European Journal of Cancer Prevention with the title “Cancer incidence predictions in the North of Portugal: keeping population-based cancer registration up to date” the prize money doubled.

Round GRELL

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Geneva (Switzerland) on 30 May 2014 to Robin Schaffar, Geneva, Switzerland for his presentation of the study “Estimation of net survival in Geneva using both cause-specific and relative survival settings”.

Since the study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Cancer Epidemiology with the title “Cause-specific or relative survival setting to estimate population-based net survival from cancer? An empirical evaluation using women diagnosed with breast cancer in Geneva between 1981 and 1991 and followed for 20 years after diagnosis” the prize money doubled.

2013 Laureates

Round IACR

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Buenos Aires (Argentina) on 24 October 2013 to Iman Meziane, Casablanca, Morocco, for her presentation of the study: “The Moroccan Breast Cancer Registry (MBCR): Assessment of Breast Cancer Risk in Morocco”.

Round GRELL

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Syracuse (Italy) on 10 May 2013 to Morgane Mounier, Dijon, France, for her presentation of the study “Changes in the therapeutic management of follicular lymphoma: which impact on the excess mortality in the general population?”.

2012 Laureates

Round IACR

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Cork (Ireland) on 19 September 2012 to Susan Spillane, Dublin, Ireland, for her presentation of the study: “Use of the antidiabetic drug metformin and disease spread at diagnosis in colorectal cancer”.

The study has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Cancer Epidemiology with the title “Metformin exposure and disseminated disease in patients with colorectal cancer”.

Round GRELL

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Porto on 18 May 2012 to Jérémie Jégu, Strasbourg, France, for his presentation of the study: “Trends over three decades of the risk of second primary cancer among patients with head and neck cancer in Bas-Rhin”.

Since the study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Oral Oncology with the title “Trends over three decades of the risk of second primary cancer among patients with head and neck cancer” the prize money doubled.

2011 Laureates

Round IACR

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Balaclava (Mauritius) on 13 October 2011 to Mugi Wahidin, Jakarta, Indonesia, for his presentation of the study: “Method of Population-Based Cancer Registry in Indonesia”.

Round GRELL

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Caen on 3 June 2011 to Carole Pornet, Caen, France, for her presentation of the study: “Socio-geographic determinants for compliance to organized colorectal and breast cancer screening programs “.

2010 Laureates

Round IACR

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Yokohama on 12 October 2010 to Yuri Ito, Osaka, Japan, for her presentation of the study: “Trends in cure fraction for colorectal cancer in Osaka, Japan, between 1975 and 2000”.

Round GRELL

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Toledo on 14 May 2010 to Bárbara Peleteiro, Porto, Portugal, for her presentation of the study: “Salt intake and Gastric cancer risk according to Helicobacter Pylori infection, tumour location and histological type”.

Since the study was published in the peer-reviewed journal British Journal of Cancer with the title “Salt intake and gastric cancer risk according to Helicobacter pylori infection, smoking, tumour site and histological type”, the prize money tripled.

Winners of the GRELL Round: past editions

2009

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Lugano on 22 May 2009 to Cyrille Delpierre, Toulouse, France, for his presentation of the study: “Surdiagnostic et surtraitement: Estimation de l’impact de l’utilisation du PSA comme dépistage du cancer prostatique dans la population Française”.

2008

The Enrico Anglesio Prize, on the occasion of its third edition, which coincided with the centenary of the Anglesio’s birth, was duplicated and awarded to two candidates who won ex aequo, in Parma on 2nd May 2008. The winners were:

Claudia Allemani, Cancer Institute of Milano, for her presentation of the study “Breast cancer survival and alcohol consumption”. The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Tumori with the title “Do pre-diagnostic drinking habits influence breast cancer survival?”.

Alessandra Spitale, Cancer Registry of Ticino (Switzerland) for her presentation of the study “Neo-adjuvant radiotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancers improves survival: comparison between clinical trials findings and population-based observation. An analysis of Ticino cancer registry (south of Switzerland), 1996-2003”.

Besides the prize in cash, the winner of the 2008 edition received a wonderful trophy offered by the organizer of the previous year’s meeting, Dr Pierre Band, and his wife Michèle from Montreal.

2007

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Montreal on 19 May 2007 to Dr. Jérémie Rudant, Paris, France, for his presentation of the study “Household pesticides use and childhood hematopoietic malignancies: the ESCALE study (SFCE)”.

Beside the prize in cash the winner of the 2007 edition received a wonderful trophy offered by the meeting organiser, Dr Pierre Band from Montreal.

Since the study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives with the title “Household exposure to pesticides and risk of childhood hematopoietic malignancies: The ESCALE study (SFCE)” the prize money tripled.

2006

The Enrico Anglesio Prize was awarded in Palma de Mallorca on 26 May 2006 to Dr Fulvio Ricceri, Torino, Italy, for his presentation of the study “Survival of Patients with Multiple Primary Tumours: an application to patients with a breast cancer from the Piedmont Cancer Registry”.

The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Emerging Themes in Epidemiology with the title “Methodological issues in estimating survival in patients with multiple primary cancers: an application to women with breast cancer as a first tumour”.