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ECCO 13 - One voice, one vision needed to overcome cancer in Europe

At present there are stark inequalities in patient access to quality care cancer treatment across Europe. A recently published pan-European study highlighted these differences revealing how patients in some countries such as the UK are required to wait significantly longer for access to new life saving drugs, compared to their Austrian, Swiss and Spanish neighbours. The different European nations' decision making processes concerning which new life-saving drugs should be made available and to whom, in addition to insufficient funds allocated to health are cited as the two main causes for this inequality.

Patients and healthcare professionals are demanding that this inequality is no longer left unaddressed and action is taken to bring Europe's healthcare systems into the 21st century. Both groups have shared opinions concerning where they think the current inequality in cancer care originates and both have key concerns that they wish the local and national authorities to act upon to meet the high expectations placed upon their healthcare system.

Patients Expectations

Today's modern society means that the medical world is now communicating with the informed patient. For most of Western Europe, patients' expectations are that all healthcare should be free and immediately available and this includes the availability of all appropriate treatments. Patients want to know everything they can about their illnesses and the treatments available and demand the right for a second opinion. As quality cancer care can mean the difference between life and death, patients feel it is only right that they have a freedom of choice when it comes to how their condition is treated and managed. Participating in the ECCO 13 Patients' Programme, Anders Jonasson, President of the Lung Cancer Organisation, Sweden and a lung cancer survivor spoke on behalf of many cancer patients across Europe when he commented, "When you are diagnosed with cancer, after t
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Contact: Kirsten Mason
kirsten.mason@toniclc.com
44-077-969-55353
Federation of European Cancer Societies
31-Oct-2005

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