To coincide with World Cancer Day, February 4th, 2014, a powerful coalition of patient advocacy organizations and health care professionals developed a Bill of Rights to address the inequalities that cancer patients in Europe face every day.
The launch, hosted by the European Cancer Concord (ECC) and European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC) in association with the Members of the European Parliament Against Cancer (MAC) Group, calls for a commitment to tackle the cancer epidemic in Europe which will result in the death of 1 cancer patient every 10 seconds in the next 20-25 years.
The European Cancer Patient’s Bill of Rights is a catalyst for change to provide every European citizen with the right to the optimum standard of care.
The Three Patient-Centered Principles
Article 1
The right of every European citizen to receive the most accurate information and to be proactively involved in his/her care.
Article 2
The right of every European citizen to optimal and timely access to appropriate specialised care, underpinned by research and innovation.
Article 3
The right of every European citizen to receive care in health systems that ensure improved outcomes, patient rehabilitation, best quality of life and affordable healthcare.
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Video
The European Cancer Patient’s Bill of Rights, Prof. Mark Lawler on behalf of the European Cancer Concord (6:07)
Speeches
Commissioner Tonio Borg delivers a speech at the launch of the European Cancer Patients’ Bill of Rights in Strasbourg on 2014-02-04
Speech by Alin Petrarche, ECPC ambassador and Head of the Romanian Rugby Federation
Presentations
Research and Cancer care; twin collaborators against our common enemy – Francoise Meunier, Director General EORTC
Moving forward in partnership: Developing a roadmap to promulgate and implement the European Cancer Patient’s Bill of Rights – Mark Lawler, ECC Project Lead and Queen’s University Belfast, and Francesco de Lorenzo, President, European Cancer Patient Coalition
Cancer and the European Citizen – it’s time to deliver! – Francesco De Lorenzo, President, European Cancer Patient Coalition
Lets put the Patient First! The European Cancer Patient’s Bill of Rights: A Catalyst for Change – Mark Lawler, ECC Project Lead and Queen’s University Belfast, and Francesco de Lorenzo, President, European Cancer Patient Coalition
Daciana Octavia SARBU, S&D MEP, Romania, and Francesco De Lorenzo, President, European Cancer Patient Coalition. February 4, 2014.