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News > EPP: time to put money on the table for the EU cancer plan

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  • 4th February 2021 - 13:30 UTC

EPP: time to put money on the table for the EU cancer plan

The EU’s new Beating Cancer Plan is a success of the European People’s Party, which campaigned for it in the 2019 European Election. Now, the EPP Group wants to make it a European success.

“We made a commitment to Europeans. We promised to pick up the fight against cancer to save lives. We kept our promise. Now it’s time to put money on the table”, said the EPP Group Chairman Manfred Weber MEP and Cindy Franssen MEP, the EPP Group’s Spokeswoman for cancer-related issues, ahead of today’s European Commission presentation of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, on World Cancer Day.

“Every year, 1.3 million people die of cancer and 2.7 million are diagnosed in the European Union. This is three times as many people we have lost to COVID-19. I am convinced that with the dedicated involvement of medical experts, researchers, patients and cancer survivors, we can and will save lives”, Weber said.

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