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Owning our successes is how we secure the future of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan

A surge in actions across the EU to improve cancer prevention, screening, and care of patients and survivors shows the success of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. We know that. To ensure continued…

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Tackling the crisis in Europe’s oncology workforce

"We’ve heard politicians saying, ‘It's a time bomb’. No, it's not a time bomb. We see the system is cracking completely right now." Norbert Couespel, senior coordinator of policy research at the…

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A European roadmap to improve men’s cancer outcomes

Ensuring gender-neutral HPV vaccination, more flexible GP access hours, and national cancer plans tackling gender specific needs are among the policies that have been identified to improve male cancer outcomes. The roadmap…

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Further and faster: ECO mobilises to accelerate momentum from Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan

“All over Europe new initiatives are being triggered. New communities of action are being formed, from young cancer trainees taking part in interspecialty training together, to cancer centres in every country getting…

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Message from a Ukrainian oncologist: Please prioritise my patients ‒ if you don’t who will?

Cancers do not stop growing because there is a war. But cancer patients stop being seen as a priority… unless you are a patient or family, or a clinical oncologist like me.…

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Liver cancer: how Europe can halt the rising death toll

When the cancer community in Europe talks of neglected cancers it usually means relatively rare or uncommon types, of which there are many. But conspicuous in the list are two digestive cancers…

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On a mission to beat cancer

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind – the words Neil Armstrong pronounced as he completed humankind’s first mission to the moon, will – if the European Commission gets its way – soon be pronounced for other missions. Both ‘other missions’ and ‘soon’ need qualifiers: ‘soon’ would mean within a decade, maximum, […]