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Boosting cross-border collaborations and joint procurement to improve access to new medicines in Europe
Existing cross-border collaborations have shown that pooling resources can facilitate access to new medicines for patients at a fairer price. At the same time, the potential of the EU Joint Procurement Agreement reaches beyond vaccines and treatments for communicable cross-border health threats.
Together we can change the future of cancer
With momentum growing for a European Cancer Plan, there is a real opportunity to make a difference for cancer patients in Europe in the next term of the European institutions, writes Deepak Khanna.Promoted content
Nurses can play key role in supportive care for cancer patients – let’s give them the means to do so
The role of the cancer care team in supportive care is crucial for people with cancer. In this context, empowering cancer nurses plays a central role.
Workplace cancer prevention must be extended to reprotoxic substances
Putting more than 10 years of paralysis behind it, the European Commission finally launched a revision of the directive on the prevention of occupational cancers in May 2016. Lawmakers can now address reprotoxic substances in the workplace, writes Laurent Vogel.
Health matters should supersede European bureaucracy
European red tape should not be an obstacle to effective healthcare. For patients with diseases like sarcoma, waiting means suffering and often avoidable death, writes Marlene Mizzi.
Europe must do more to stamp out lung cancer stigma
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the EU and 267,700 people die from it each year across Europe. MEPs and cancer activists call for more to be done to tackle the burden of this disease on the individuals diagnosed, their families and our society.
The EU’s promotion of meat consumption is misguided, Mr Hogan
Ever since he took office, Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan has promoted the interests of the livestock sector while ignoring health warnings and environmental concerns over meat consumption, writes Olga Kikou.
Brexit casts doubt over Uganda development project on lung disease
The UK's vote to leave the European Union has come at a crucial moment in the development of an international medical project that throws into sharp relief the state of flux Brexit has cast over collaborative research, says Jack Barton.
Why do some countries block action on air pollution rather than save lives?
Air pollution causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year and costs up to 9% of EU GDP. Stalling on improving air quality is both dangerous and economically foolish, writes Louise Duprez.
Eliminating viral hepatitis, a ‘silent killer’
The target of eliminating viral hepatitis infection by 2030 is achievable, especially in Europe. But on a global scale, new healthcare funding mechanisms are needed for the dream to become a reality, writes Pierre Van Damme.
The rising wave of privatisation damages healthcare in Europe
The austerity policies pursued in several European countries in the wake of the EU fiscal crisis are pushing the public health sector to the brink – and forcing more and more services into private hands, writes Jan Willem Goudriaan on World Health Day (7 April).
14.5 million European workers unprotected from risks of skin cancer
Revisiting European policies and legislation to meet the increasing prevalence of skin cancer in outdoor workers should become part of the European agenda, write Swen Malte John and Nikos Manaras.
Taking action for rare cancers
For many rare cancers patients, it can be difficult to have access to appropriate therapies and clinical expertise, due to the fact that there has been a limited number of clinical studies to find new drugs and treatments, writes Mihaela Militaru.
Lung cancer screening: A step in the right direction
Given lung cancer’s relative prevalence within Europe when compared to other parts of the world, European Week Against Cancer presents a timely opportunity to discuss what is being done in the fight to reduce its prevalence, writes Jean-Paul Sculier.
World Cancer Day: The first day in a renewed fight to beat cancer sooner
It’s important that the fight against cancer takes place every day, and across all policies, writes Catherine Castledine on World Cancer Day, writes Catherine Castledine.
Clean the air, prevent cancer
We can do more to prevent people from getting cancer, for example by increasing efforts to reduce the amount of pollutants in the air, says Christian Friis Bach.