A new national cancer strategy has been launched in France on World Cancer Day. The Stratégie Décennale de lutte contre les cancers 2021-2030 focuses on cancer prevention, childhood cancers, improving patient outcomes and reducing long-term consequences of cancer and its treatment and aims to reduce the avoidable cancer cases by 60,000 per year.
On the eve of the World Cancer Day, the European Commission presented Europe's Beating Cancer Plan which sets out a new European Union approach to cancer prevention, treatment and care. It tackles the entire disease pathway, from prevention to quality of life of cancer patients and survivors, focusing on actions where the EU can add the most value. Europe's Beating Cancer Plan will be supported by actions spanning across policy areas from employment, education, social policy and equality, through marketing, agriculture, energy, the environment and climate, to transport, cohesion policy, and taxation. The Cancer Plan is structured around four key action areas: Prevention, Early detection, Diagnosis and treatment and Improvement of quality of life of cancer patients and survivors.