Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre | Annual Report 2017–18 Experts discuss ideas and priorities at the Precision Prevention and Tailored Screening workshop Precision Prevention Professor Graham Colditz, one of the world’s foremost and Tailored Screening experts on cancer prevention from Washington University, St Louis, USA, presented at the symposium Research over the past 20 years has informed and then worked with the steering group to prioritise the development of risk models that can classify the ideas based on areas of unmet need and greatest individuals into cancer risk strata. However, these opportunity for impact. models and new evidence on best practice for risk- As a result, the program is supporting three projects stratified screening are not routinely translated into clinical practice or public health policy. This presents that together will move research evidence on cancer a key opportunity to reduce the burden of cancer prevention and screening closer to routine practice: through implementation of precision prevention and Toward tailored breast screening tailored screening based on an individual’s risk profile. • • A genomic platform for predicting risk of As a new Strategic Research Plan (SRP) program, the multiple common cancers Precision Prevention and Tailored Screening program Towards evidence-based implementation has focussed on engaging researchers and clinicians •of guidelines for use of aspirin to prevent to agree priorities and set out opportunities for colorectal cancer. structured collaboration to forge progress in this area. An interactive symposium Evidence, Ideas, Action: Work in this program has also been influential in Charting the Course for Precision Prevention and the selection of cancer prevention as the Victorian Tailored Screening was held in April 2018. The Government’s priority for a grand challenge that forum was a platform for far-reaching and thought- could be a focus for the Medical Research Future Fund. provoking discussions among the 70 participants Presentations from the symposium can be viewed via resulting in a list of promising ideas and potential the VCCC Education and Training Hub. priority areas. 42