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Colon Cancer
Leading Colorectal Patient Organisation Calls on EU Countries to Improve Poor Standards of Care
July 8th, 2008
europacolon has called on all governments to implement existing EU recommendations on colorectal cancer screening following a new report published that shows the disease to be significantly neglected despite being the second most common cancer in Europe.(1) Welcoming the findings of the report by the London School of Economics, (2) Jola Gore-Booth, Director of europacolon said: "For too long colorectal cancer has been the poor relation in cancer screening and management. It causes over 50% more deaths each year than breast cancer, yet in many countries, breast cancer screening has been widely available for more than two decades whereas few formal screening programmes...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-07-08)
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