CONFERENCE - DEBATE: Blood cancers, work and the environment. A challenge for future generations!

29 september 2025 / 12h ~ 14h
Campus Hannah Arendt - city centre site
South Building - Amphitheatre AT01

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Free admission, open to all

As part of Septembre Rouge, the month of information on blood cancers, take part in a discussion on these diseases, the role of work and the environment in carcinogenic exposure, and prevention as a health-promoting action. The event is co-organised and led by Dr Slama, head of the Haemato-Oncology Unit at Avignon Hospital, Mr Hunsmann, CNRS research fellow and co-director of GISCOPE84, Dr Susler, medical director of the Avignon University Student Health Service, the EFS and the Ligue contre le cancer.

The EFS will also be holding a blood drive from 9am to 5pm in room 0E32.

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Programme :

29 September 2025

12pm-2pm

Amphitheatre AT01 (South Building)

Conference-debate organised by the Avignon University Student Health Service (SSE) in partnership with the Centre Hospitalier d'Avignon, the Groupement d'Intérêt Scientifique sur les Cancers d'Origine Professionnelle et Environnementale dans le Vaucluse (GISCOPE 84), the Établissement Français du Sang and the Ligue contre le cancer.

Blood cancers, work and the environment.

A challenge for future generations

 Welcome and introduction (10min)

• Open for business. Pr Gaëlle MesgouezVice-President in charge of Research, Avignon University
• Presentation of Septembre Rouge. Dr Alizée SuslerDoctor, Director of the Avignon University Student Health Service 

Blood cancers : Dr Borhane Slama, Head of Haemato-Oncology at Avignon Hospital, Chairman of the Vaucluse GHT Medical Committee (30 min).

• What a world!
• What are the causes and pathophysiological mechanisms?
• A therapeutic revolution "underway

Audience discussion (10 min)

Making the occupational and environmental causes of blood cancers visible: action research in the Vaucluse (Le GISCOPE 84)) (20 min) Moritz HunsmannResearch Fellow, Sociology, CNRS.

Audience discussion (10 min)

Round-table: The role of each individual: how to get involved (20 min)

• For yourself: Taking preventive action for your health, the role of each individual and that of the doctor (Dr. Alizée Susler and Ligue contre le cancer)
•  For others: Blood donation (EFS), Ligue contre le cancer... 

Audience discussion (10 min)