| MAC Meeting on "Making Cancer Control a Priority - EU Presidencies" (27 June 2007) |
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MEPs Against Cancer (MAC) Members met at 27 June 07 with senior Health Ministry officials from both the Slovenian and Portuguese governments to discuss how to make improving cancer survival a priority under their EU Council Presidencies. At the Cancer Patient Summit “United Against Cancer”, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia in November 2006, Dr Andrej Brucan, Minister of Health, revealed that the Slovenian government had decided to make cancer a priority of their health agenda when they are in the Presidency chair in 2008. As the first new EU Member State to hold the EU Presidency, the Slovenian government has ambitious plans: improved measures for managing all aspects, from primary prevention, early detection and screening to effective treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care of cancer, a disease that takes over 200 different forms. The Portuguese government, in line to take over the Presidency on 1 July, is also rallying its support for an improved cancer control strategy focused on patients. MAC members heard from Dr Joaquim Gouveia, Portugal’s national cancer director, that his country is preparing a Round Table on the European Health Strategy, to be held in Lisbon on the 12th of July 2007. Portugal will highlight the importance of National Cancer Plans, Cancer Registries and Cancer Screening Programmes.
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