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Comprehensive Cancer Centres: The Foundation for Beating Cancer Plan and Cancer Mission Success
With forthcoming Autumn meetings of the Commission, Member States and Parliament on implementation of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, the European Cancer Organisation and Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI) have…
Cancer Nurses – The Key To Prevention, Risk Reduction And Tackling The European Cancer Burden
European Cancer Nursing Day (ECND21), takes place every year on 18 May, organised by the European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS). This year, it will focus on the impact cancer nurses…
How can we best exploit cancer registries to the benefit of clinical research?
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the role of clinical data registries to the fore once again. Such registries use observational study methods to collect data about the treatment, outcomes, and…
SPCC Strategic Plan 2020-2022
SPCC wants to confirm and broaden its activity as an internationally recognised and highly respected provider of independent, evidence-based medical education in the cancer field and to increase knowledge in…
From 1918 to 2020, the lessons of pandemics remain
From 1918 to 2020, the lessons of pandemics remain: health systems must be kept strong, and international health cooperation underpinned “The new normal” and “unprecedented times” are phrases all of…
The European Parliament in Brussels lit up in gold in support of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month!
The year 2020 is proving to be challenging as the world is confronted with an extraordinary global health emergency and everyone’s attention is focused on one disease only: COVID-19. We…
Early detection of prostate cancer
Europe’s chance to save lives and increase quality of life for prostate cancer patients For a number of years now, the European Association of Urology has been working with patient…
Celebrating 40 years of reducing the impact of cancer on people’s lives
The Association of European Cancer Leagues (ECL), a network of national and regional cancer leagues all over Europe, is celebrating 40 years of actions to reduce the impact of cancer.…
EORTC calls for the interests of patients to take centre stage in the development of new treatments
With the arrival of precision medicine, the days of the old ‘one size fits all’ treatments seem long in the past. Precision oncology and new approaches to clinical research have…
Big things are made out of small pieces: The value of convening networks in cancer policy
So the Year 2020 has arrived. Many predictions were made about the lives we would be living by now. Machines were usually a feature. Flying cars, spaceships taking us to…