Discovering the Causes of Three Poorly Understood Cancers in Europe (DISCERN) is a five-year project of the European Commission Cancer Mission to understand the causes of renal, pancreatic, and colorectal cancer in Europe and to help explain the geographical distribution of these cancer types, including their high incidence in central and eastern Europe.

The DISCERN project comprises a European multinational consortium of 20 institutions under the coordination of IARC. The project started in January 2023 and is funded by a grant from the European Commission in the framework of the Horizon Europe Mission on Cancer.