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The European Commission’s new European Beating Cancer Plan has received a guarded welcome from MEPs

Sarhan Basem by Sarhan Basem
21 September 2022
in EU Institutions News
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Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) An estimated 1.3 million people die from cancer each year, including 6000 children, while the medical and financial consequences for those who survive are huge. The European Commission has hailed its new strategy as a step forward in addressing cancer, an illness that affects millions of Europeans and their families. The plan centres around four key areas: prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment and improving quality of life. The EU budget has earmarked €4bn to address cancer, including from the EU4Health programme, Horizon Europe and the Digital Europe Programme.

The Beating Cancer Plan foresees the establishment of a Cancer Inequalities Registry to “identify challenges and guide investments and interventions” at the EU and national levels. New “digital tools”, such as the European Cancer Imaging Initiative, the European Health Data Space and the strengthening of the European Cancer Information System will, it is hoped, allow the EU to use Artificial Intelligence for cancer diagnosis and treatment. The plan also includes a commitment to encourage a shift to a more plant-based diet, with less red and processed meat and other foods linked to cancer risk, and more fruit and vegetables.

Cindy Franssen MEP


“The screening and detection of cancer are key to fighting this deadly disease. We welcome the European Commission’s action and call for swift implementation by all Member States. For the EPP Group, the EU-wide fight against cancer is a long-term priority. We are ready to work with the Commission to combat the second most common cause of death in the EU”, says Cindy Franssen MEP, EPP Group Spokeswoman in the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA).

The EPP Group appreciates that the new recommendations reflect scientific developments, and include many of the conclusions, that the EPP Group brought to the Committee’s report, e.g. to extend screening schemes and launch an EU platform of national screening centres.

“Early detection of cancer is absolutely crucial. Unfortunately, the European fight against COVID-19 and people’s isolation in the past two years has led to millions of people being under-screened. Now we need an urgent change in this trend. Besides that, we really must address the existing social and geographic inequalities in access to cancer screening”, said Franssen.

The EPP Group has also long pointed out that in addition to early prevention and screening, we need funding for research.

”We want to understand why cancer is developing and treat it before the patient gets symptoms through prevention, early detection and treatment, and to support research on this. Only if the best brains come together and cooperate can we make progress”, said Peter Liese MEP, the EPP Group’s lead negotiator of the final Report of Parliament’s Beating Cancer Committee (BECA), which concluded its work in February 2022.

 “The European Commission must be able to spot and remove obstacles researchers face in their work. Just as the EU has done for COVID-19, it should support more clinical trials, especially non-profit ones, as well as research into rare cancers, including paediatrics”, stressed Liese.

The EPP Group called, in the run-up to the 2019 European elections, to step up the European fight against cancer and has been the driving force for setting up Parliament’s Beating Cancer Committee (BECA).


Read more at https://www.eppgroup.eu/newsroom/news/implement-new-cancer-screening-initiative-swiftly

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