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Ending cancer inequalities: European summit showcases new tools to inform policy

Two ambitious data initiatives aimed at tracking a wide range of inequalities that contribute to big differences in the risk of dying from cancer were highlighted in the opening session of the…

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A success story in Romania’s struggle to control cervical cancer

In rural Romania, in a small town called Sadova, some 200 km west of the country’s capital Bucharest, the local community is trying to ensure that their daughters don’t have to live…

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Developing palliative care: new WHO guidance helps countries tailor their own path

Image: Delivering palliative care in Kerala, India ©Camilla Perkins, camillaperkins.com Delivering palliative care to avoid unnecessary health-related suffering is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “a moral imperative and a…

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How we turn lung cancer care into a European success story

Opportunities to make significant headway against cancer don’t come around very often. This year, an alignment of science and European cancer policy is opening such an opportunity in relation to lung cancer…

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Informal carers play a key role in cancer care: they need and deserve more support

What is it worth to patients to have someone they can rely on to provide emotional support and talk things through, help them get to and from appointments, remind them about what…

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Preventing alcohol-related cancers in Europe: lessons from three countries

Alcohol can be bad for your health. Most people know that. But what many people have yet to grasp is that ‒ like smoking tobacco ‒ drinking alcohol can significantly raise their…

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PSA population screening is back in favour: here’s why

Five years ago, the idea of national screening programmes for prostate cancer had gone cold. The benefits of PSA (prostate specific antigen) blood testing, introduced as a screening tool in the 1980s,…

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Beating cancer is complex – our messaging must be clear

A window of opportunity is opening up across Europe to reverse the ever-rising trend of new cancers and improve outcomes for patients everywhere. It’s been brought about in part by a major…

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Roundtable ‘grasps nettle’ on European cancer inequalities

Improving treatment of older patients and closing the East−West divide were the focus of a Community 365 Roundtable on Inequalities organised by the European Cancer Organisation on the 14th October. This event was the first of a series of Community 365 roundtable meetings. Community 365 is an European Cancer Organisation initiative that brings together charity, […]

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Stella Kyriakides: EU Commissioner for Health

When Stella Kyriakides took on the post of EU Health Commissioner in September 2019, Europe’s cancer community knew they could trust her to fight their cause. Within months she was launching a…