On the eve of World Cancer Day in February, the European Commission announced an ambitious roadmap to beat cancer and it was very pleasant music to my ears.
The European Beating Cancer Plan comes into sharper focus in the coming days as member states mark the European Week Against Cancer and concentrate on its implementation.
The plan seeks to target the disease pathway comprehensively, including prevention and early detection as its key action areas. The other key action areas are diagnosis and treatment, and the quality of life of cancer patients and survivors.
The age-old adage maintains that prevention is better than cure it is also the most cost-efficient, long-term cancer control strategy. Research shows that almost 50 per cent of cancer cases in the EU are preventable, and we all have a part to play.
Unnecessary loss of life, and how to avoid it - The potential of lung cancer screening
Published 2 months ago
Unnecessary loss of life – but not from COVID-19. At a time when the coronavirus infection is already inflicting a frightening death toll on the world from a previously unknown health threat, Europe cannot afford to tolerate another unnecessary and large-scale loss of life from a disease that has long been well recognized: lung cancer. But institutional neglect is causing unnecessary loss of life, according to oncologists, pulmonologists, radiotherapists, technology developers and patient representatives from across Europe. In a European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) round table they focused on persistent delays in promoting the lung cancer screening programmes that could save thousands of life-years,
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Following the Commissionâs adoption of the European Beating Cancer Plan today, the Socialists and Democrats Group expressed their support for this initial positive step, calling for reinforced co-ordination and shared research among member states to ensure all citizens in the EU can rely on effective and high-quality treatment and care.
The S&D co-ordinator in the beating cancer committee, Alessandra Moretti MEP, stated:
âAs progressives we have been at the forefront calling for a European Health Union to be created. As progressives, we are happy to see that the EU Commission aims at making the Beating Cancer Plan one of the main tools in the fight against one of the leading causes of death in the European Union, with a renewed, co-ordinated and more efficient approach.
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EAPM: The blood is the life – key work on blood cancers needed with respect to the upcoming European Beating Cancer Plan
Published 2 months ago
Good afternoon, and welcome to the second update of the week from the European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM). With the upcoming Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan (scheduled for its formal launch on 3 or 4 February, depending on whether DG SANTE or the Commission are correct in their predictions), health discussions will inevitably turn to how the noble aim of the campaign is likely to be achieved, and EAPM Executive Director Dr. Denis Horgan turns his particular attention to cancers of the blood.
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