The Global Burden of HPV-Associated Cancers with Dr. Eduardo Franco

Dr. Eduardo Franco, from McGill University, spoke with Dr. Chiraz Guessaier, CDA Oasis Manager, about the global burden of HPV-associated cancers in general and oropharyngeal cancer in particualr. 

Dr. Franco is James McGill Professor in the Departments of Oncology and Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, and Chairman, Department of Oncology, at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine, in Montreal. He holds B.Sc. and Licentiate degrees in biology from Universidade de Campinas, Brazil, and master’s (MPH) and doctoral (DrPH) degrees in public health microbiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a Guest Researcher at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and a post-doctoral fellow in cancer epidemiology at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, at the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, and at Louisiana State University, in New Orleans.

Professor Franco’s research during the last 30 years has focussed on the following topics: molecular epidemiology and prevention of cervical cancer and human papillomavirus-associated diseases, cancers of the upper aero-digestive tract, prostate, endometrium, and childhood tumours; studies of epidemiologic methods for evaluating efficacy of cancer screening strategies; the impact of measurement error in epidemiology; and studies of societal and clinical influences on cancer patient survival.

The Global Burden of HPV-Associated Cancers with Dr. Eduardo Franco Part 1: Introducing HPV-Associasted Cancers

The Global Burden of HPV-Associated Cancers with Dr. Eduardo Franco Part 2: PPT Presentation

The Global Burden of HPV-Associated Cancers with Dr. Eduardo Franco Part 3: Concluding Remarks