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EU wants more Comprehensive Cancer Centres

Oslo University Hospital will help in the preparation and creation of more Comprehensive Cancer Centres.

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The EU has set an ambitious goal to tackle inequalities in cancer care across Europe. Photo: Pixabay

The Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan & the Mission on Cancer have the ambitious goal to improve the lives of three million Europeans by 2030.

Published

Mar 15, 2023

Author

Sofia Linden

Category
EU

There are significant inequalities across Europe in cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care, and access to clinical trials. In addition, patients that are diagnosed and treated in research-active hospitals have better outcomes than patients treated in general hospitals.

This is why the European Union has an ambition that 90% of eligible patients have access to Comprehensive Cancer Centres by 2030. This is one of the goals in Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, which was launched by the European Commission last year and has 4 billion euros earmarked for cancer.

As part of a Joint Action programme for the preparation and creation of more Comprehensive Cancer Centres, Oslo University Hospital has been selected, together with Institut National du Cancer in France, for a central work package, that will look at the framework for building Comprehensive Cancer Centres.

Oslo University Hospital is currently the only Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Norway.

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