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Event
16 - 15 November 2023, Radisson Collection Hotel, Grand Place Brussels (and Virtual)
Save the Date - 15 & 16 November
This year's Summit will once again be held in Brussels, and most delegates will join us in person to meet and greet friends and colleagues from across Europe. Those who cannot physically attend can still join us virtually.
Where else will you find oncology experts, patient advocates, politicians, and policymakers collaborating on the future of cancer care in Europe? What are the greatest challenges that lie ahead? What are the key priorities and most effective strategies for success? Get a front row seat and hear it all at the European Cancer Summit 2023 – 15 & 16 November.
Registration opens at the end of May.
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Event
03 October 2023, Virtual
On Tuesday 3 October at 14:30 - 17:00 CET, the European Cancer Organisation will hold the third Community 365 Roundtable event of 2023, on the subject of improving access to genomic tumour testing across Europe
The meeting will be co-chaired by Patrycja Rzadkowska, ECO PAC Member and Patient Advocate for Pancreatic Cancers Europe and Mark Lawler, ECO Board Member and Chair in Translational Cancer Genomics, Queen's University Belfast.
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Event
04 July 2023, Virtual
On Tuesday 4 July, 14:30-17:00 CEST, the European Cancer Organisation will facilitate the next Community 365 Roundtable on the topic of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS).
Roundtable Co-Chairs Isabel Rubio (ECO Board Member and ESSO President) and Zorana Maravic (ECO PAC Member and CEO of Digestive Cancers Europe) will lead a programme of expert speakers and panels through pertinent and developing aspects of the PROMS agenda.
Supported by opportunities with exchange with Roundtable attendees, the gathered perspectives will enable a new ‘Action Report’, with policy recommendations, to be developed from the meeting, reviewed and approved through the ECO Policy Pathway of ECO Member Societies and the ECO Patient Advisory Committee.
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consultation-responses
May 2023
The European Cancer Organisation (ECO) has responded to the European Commission evaluation of the legislative framework for tobacco control public consultation.The consultation aimed to help evaluate to what extent the framework has fulfilled its goals and whether it is able to support a ‘tobacco-free generation’ by 2040, as announced in Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan.
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news
03 May 2023
The Lancet Oncology publication highlights a new, online tool to compare cancer data across Europe
Only 12 of the 27 EU Member States have an up-to-date national cancer control plan. That’s just one of many startling statistics from the new ‘European Cancer Pulse’, an online data tool of the European Cancer Organisation (ECO) and featured today in the world-renowned The Lancet Oncology journal.
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news
03 May 2023
A new European consortium, funded with 6 million Euros, will create a network of support for EU Mission on Cancer
- The project Establishing of Cancer Mission Hubs: Networks and Synergies (ECHoS) aims to coordinate R&I and Healthcare actions on cancer, with policy-making processes, towards people-centric healthcare and research systems.
- The consortium brings together the leading expertise of more than 50 governmental, healthcare, academic, and non-profit organizations from 28 countries.
- National Cancer Mission Hubs (NCMHs) will be created in each country to engage a broad range of stakeholders from both public and private sectors in collaborative initiatives and policy dialogues on cancer, at national, regional and local levels.
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news
28 April 2023
On 14 April, I had the privilege of taking part in the inaugural meeting of ECO's new Young Cancer Professionals group. More than 80 participants joined online, and it was a true multidisciplinary audience. We had nurses, radiologists, medical oncologists, and others, from all across Europe.
The philosophy behind this initiative is to provide professionals with a platform to work together in support of the European Cancer Organisation and its mission to improve cancer care quality and access.
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news
26 April 2023
The EU4Health programme has approved PRAISE-U (PRostate cancer Awareness and Initiative for Screening in the European Union), an ambitious three-year project involving 25 institutions from 12 countries. PRAISE-U’s mission is to design a nationally tailored cost-effective early detection algorithm for prostate cancer screening in the EU to reduce morbidity and mortality caused by prostate cancer while avoiding overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
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news
26 April 2023
The European Cancer Organisation welcomes today’s publication by the European Commission of a legal proposal to amend the governing legislative framework for pharmaceuticals in the EU.
In the coming weeks, we will be working with our Board of Directors, Member Societies, Patient Advisory Committee and others to scrutinise the details and identify opportunities for improvement. So many important issues for healthcare and cancer care in particular, are at stake, including:
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