Please Note: This is a draft programme. All scheduled times and speakers may be subject to change.

9:15 Registration (Tea and coffee will be provided)

Morning Session (Chair: Prof Aileen Keel CBE)

9:30 Introduction
Prof Bob Steele

9:40 Welcome to the SCPN
Prof Annie S Anderson

9:55 Scottish Cancer Taskforce
Prof Aileen Keel CBE

10:00 World Cancer Research Fund
Prof Martin Wiseman

10:30 To be confirmed
To be confirmed

10:50 Ministerial address
Aileen Campbell MSP, Minister for Public Health and Sport

Movement and Coffee Break

11:30 Prostate cancer screening
Prof Bob Steele

11:50 Sun care and melanoma
Dr Gill Hubbard

12:10 Getting more physically active
Prof Nanette Mutrie MBE

Afternoon Session (Chair: Miss Susan Moug)

13:30 To be confirmed
To be confirmed

13:45 AHPs - What we do
Debbie Provan

14:00 Bowel Cancer UK - What worksite work is going on?
Claire Donaghy, Ross Lamb

14:10 Healthy retailing - NHS
To be confirmed

14:20 NHS staff health promotion competition
To be confirmed

14:40 Patient representative - walking and weight loss
To be confirmed

14:50 Patient representative - smoking cessation
To be confirmed

15:00 To be confirmed
To be confirmed

15:25 Beyond the headlines - fake news
Prof Linda Bauld, Prof Martin Wiseman, Elspeth Banks, Bryan Christie

16:00 Closing remarks
Prof Bob Steele

“World Cancer Day takes place every year on 4 February and unites the world under a single theme to highlight the on-going fight against cancer. World Cancer Day aims to reduce the number of preventable deaths each year by raising cancer awareness amongst the general public and pressing governments to take further actions against the disease.”

– Official World Cancer Day Guide by UICC.

Since 2014, the SCPN has deliberately scheduled their annual conference to fall on World Cancer Day. We do this, not only to show our support for the initiative, but also on the basis that our conference shares the same aims: to raise cancer awareness, and press governments to take further action against the disease. We believe that cancer prevention and screening is a fundamental part of this action, and organise our conference to share the latest in prevention and lifestyle research, discuss public health issues and present this to health professionals, researchers, charities and government.

This year’s theme is ‘We Can, I Can’, designed to highlight the fact that we (organisations, governments, health professionals) can take action against cancer, but also, as individuals (I), we can take steps to stack the odds against developing cancer.

Find out more at www.worldcancerday.org.