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Prioritisation
We call on policymakers to become figureheads of awareness campaigns, both at EU and at national level, to increase the knowledge and understanding of the challenges facing people with advanced prostate cancer and the burden of the disease.
The Mission Boards1 within the new European Commission's mission on cancer should ensure that prostate cancer is identified as a specific priority area.
The European Parliament should take action on prostate cancer and work with the Commission and Member States on the implementation of cancer prevention and control plans e.g. by commissioning a report on the state of implementation of the national plans, leading an own-initiative report on cancer addressing the specific needs of people with prostate cancer and creating an integrated European cancer plan.
All national cancer programmes and the work of the European Commission should explicitly address the needs of people living with advanced prostate cancer, setting out the steps that will be taken to improve care, meet the increasing need for treatment and support and evaluate progress on these ambitions.
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European Commission. Commission invites top experts to shape new research and innovation missions. 13 May 2019. Accessible at: https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/commission-invites-top-experts-shape-new-research-and-innovation-missions-2019-may-13_en (last accessed March 2022)