This summer is marked by breaking the taboo associated with cancer. The EU oncobus, which traveled across Poland as part of the "Look, Poland! Keep an eye on cancer!". Five cities took part in the campaign: Katowice, Gdynia, Grunwald, Wroclaw and Lublin. Medical specialists, educators and representatives of non-governmental organizations dealing with cancer were waiting at specially prepared stops. The campaign was received positively by residents, NGOs and local media alike.
The campaign was part of Mission Cancer, an EU initiative to fight cancer. Its main goals are not only to fund innovation and research to better understand cancer and its causes, to modernize diagnosis and treatment through the development of more effective screening tests, but also to improve patients' quality of life during and after treatment. In addition, the EU is also involved in building oncology infrastructures in member states, among other things.
Twenty institutions (foundations, organizations and hospitals) supported the EU action
According to statistics, cancer is detected in 2.7 million people annually throughout the European Union, but as many as 40 percent of cancers can be prevented or cured if detected at an early stage. Priority points on the initiative's list were to gather information on cancer in Poland, as well as to raise awareness among Poles about cancer treatment, prevention, screening, oncological diagnosis and scientific advances in the f...
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