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Cancer is a personal story for all of us.
This is why we are working on prevention, early diagnosis, and equal access to care.
Ahead of #WorldCancerDay and a year since the #EUCancerPlan, we are launching 4️new actions with specific objectives.
Here they are: ⬇️
This is why we are working on prevention, early diagnosis, and equal access to care.
Ahead of #WorldCancerDay and a year since the #EUCancerPlan, we are launching 4️new actions with specific objectives.
Here they are: ⬇️
Objective 1 ➞ Everyone in our 🇪🇺 Union should get the cancer treatment they need.
Our Cancer Inequalities Registry will help identify and tackle inequalities in cancer prevention and care due to gender, educational attainment and disparities between regions.
#EUCancerPlan
Our Cancer Inequalities Registry will help identify and tackle inequalities in cancer prevention and care due to gender, educational attainment and disparities between regions.
#EUCancerPlan
Objective 2 ➞ Ensuring 90% of the EU population who qualify for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screenings are offered it by 2025.
Finding cancer at an early stage can save lives. This is why a cancer screening call for evidence is important.
#EUCancerPlan
Finding cancer at an early stage can save lives. This is why a cancer screening call for evidence is important.
#EUCancerPlan
2021 has been a challenging year but we have managed to make progress towards a more resilient, greener, and more digital Europe.
⭐ It’s time to wrap up 2021! Let’s have a look at the main highlights of the year!
⭐ It’s time to wrap up 2021! Let’s have a look at the main highlights of the year!
Undoubtedly, #NextGenerationEU has been the flagship initiative of the #vdLCommission in 2021.
💚More than a recovery plan, it is a chance to emerge stronger from the pandemic, transform our economies, and create opportunities for the Europe where we want to live.
💚More than a recovery plan, it is a chance to emerge stronger from the pandemic, transform our economies, and create opportunities for the Europe where we want to live.
🩹 What we’ve managed to achieve during 2021 was a true European success story.
✅All Europeans have access to vaccines.
✅Most vaccinated region in the world.
✅More than 1 billion vaccine doses exported worldwide.
✅Biggest donor of vaccines in the world.
#SafeVaccines
✅All Europeans have access to vaccines.
✅Most vaccinated region in the world.
✅More than 1 billion vaccine doses exported worldwide.
✅Biggest donor of vaccines in the world.
#SafeVaccines
For more than a year, our priority has been to lead the way out of the global health crisis.
Find out more in our new brochure and in our thread ↓
europa.eu/!d3Y6hF #SOTEU
Find out more in our new brochure and in our thread ↓
europa.eu/!d3Y6hF #SOTEU
Firstly, we worked on procuring vaccines to Europeans.
A broad portfolio was created and today more than 70% of the adult population is fully vaccinated.
#SOTEU
A broad portfolio was created and today more than 70% of the adult population is fully vaccinated.
#SOTEU
In the spirit of European solidarity, we mobilised funding to support:
🩺 the delivery of equipment, medicines, antigen tests
🔬 urgent research into variants
More than €7.6 billion was reallocated under the Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative.
#SOTEU #EUsolidarity
🩺 the delivery of equipment, medicines, antigen tests
🔬 urgent research into variants
More than €7.6 billion was reallocated under the Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative.
#SOTEU #EUsolidarity
I applaud the #EUCancerPlan *BUT* caution: putting #meat 🥩 (a nourishing, evolutionary food) in the same box as 🚬 to solve a contemporary health challenge, would be basing policy on assumptions rather than robust data.
#FollowTheScience yes, but not just part of it!
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#FollowTheScience yes, but not just part of it!
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1/ Granted, some studies have pointed to ASSOCIATIONS of HIGH intake of red & processed meats with (slightly!) increased colorectal cancer incidence. Also, @WHO/IARC is often mentioned in support (usually hyperbolically so).
But, let’s have a closer look at all this! 🔍
But, let’s have a closer look at all this! 🔍
2/ First, meat being “associated” with cancer is very different from stating that meat CAUSES cancer.
Unwarranted use of causal language is widespread in nutritional sciences, posing a systemic problem & undermining credibility.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Unwarranted use of causal language is widespread in nutritional sciences, posing a systemic problem & undermining credibility.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
