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news
25 November 2020
Today, Wednesday 25 November 2020, the European Commission has published its long awaited Communication setting out a new “Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe”. The Strategy is available here.
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essential-requirements
November 2020
Taken together, the information presented in this paper provides a description of the essential requirements for establishing a high-quality lung cancer service. The ERQCC expert group is aware that it is not possible to propose a ‘one size fits all’ system for all countries, but urges that access to MDTs and specialised treatments is guaranteed to all people with lung cancer.
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news
19 November 2020
With Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan under development, the Survivorship and Quality of Life Network of the European Cancer Organisation has collated its recommendations to help more cancer patients and survivors achieve a life truly free from cancer and its often under-appreciated impacts.
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reports
November 2020
The Quality of Cancer Care matters. For this reason, European and international healthcare professional, patient and other organisations have devoted themselves to providing resources to support the achievement of Quality Cancer Care.
The European Quality Cancer Care Catalogue provides a central repository to signpost individuals to the tools they will find helpful. In this sense, it aims to be a continually evolving home for societies and other entities to profile and disseminate their work to broad audiences likely to have interest in their initiatives.
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news
18 November 2020
With many thousands of excess deaths from cancer across Europe now likely as a result of COVID-19 and associated control measures, and in the wake of devastating disruption across all areas of cancer care, the European cancer community has published a ‘7-Point Plan to Address the Urgency and Build Back Better.’
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reports
November 2020
The European Cancer Organisation’s new Action Report It Can Be Done — Beating Inequalities in Cancer Care shines a much needed spotlight on inequity that exists in all parts of cancer care, in all countries in Europe. The report focuses especially on the East-West divide in cancer care, as well as the discrimination that can occur against older cancer patients.
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news
10 November 2020
The European Cancer Organisation’s new Action Report It Can Be Done — Beating Inequalities in Cancer Care shines a much needed spotlight on inequity that exists in all parts of cancer care, in all countries in Europe. The report focuses especially on the East-West divide in cancer care, as well as the discrimination that can occur against older cancer patients.
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news
13 October 2020
This Tuesday, the ministers responsible for research in Germany, Portugal and Slovenia signed the declaration “Europe: together against cancer”. The ministers came together at the conference on research policy entitled “Europe: Unite Against Cancer”, held under the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union, to discuss joint approaches to strengthening cancer research in Europe.
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reports
October 2020
Now is the time for ambition. Now is the time for inspiration. Now is the time for decisive action to create an HPV-cancer-free future for men and women across Europe.
This report has been written with the input and endorsement of a wide range of organisations and individual experts with an interest in cancer and HPV. It is a multi-disciplinary and inter-professional initiative that constitutes a public appeal to decision-makers across Europe to seize the moment.
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