Delayed diagnosis and inequalities in access to treatments across the EU are among the main challenges in fighting multiple myeloma, an incurable and rare form of blood cancer.
The EU’s ambitious goals to protect cancer patients could transform lives and save millions more. A properly-implemented Beating Cancer Plan will be essential to turn the rising tide of avoidable deaths.
MEPs who sit on the beating cancer committee have agreed to remove obstacles to cross-border clinical research in the European Parliament’s final report on the EU’s €4 billion plan to eradicate cancer, which was adopted today.
The official result of the vote in committee is to be announced later this evening, but the rapporteur on the EU cancer plan announced that her colleagues had rubber stamped all 145 compromise amendments to the report. “First step achieved,” said Véronique Trillet-Lenoir.
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