About the Mission
Together with Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, the EU Cancer Mission is the European Commission’s response to addressing the increasing cancer burden which represents a growing societal challenge.
Being part of the Beating Cancer Plan, the Mission brings together research, innovation and public health policies in ways that cannot be achieved through individual research activities and policy actions at EU, national, regional and local levels. Through its investments and engagement with citizen and stakeholders, the Mission is key for delivering the objectives and actions of the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, in particular by generating and sharing new evidence and delivering innovative concepts that shape policy actions in each of the four Mission objectives, i.e., understanding, prevention and early detection, diagnosis and treatment, and quality of life.
The EU Cancer Mission also focusses on several transversal priorities, i.e. citizen and stakeholder engagement, accessibility for all, childhood cancer, innovation, and personalised medicine.
Mission calls and projects are managed by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA). Call results are accessible via the HaDEA website.
Objectives
Projects and main initiative ‘UNCAN.eu data platform’.
Projects and main initiative ‘European Cancer Prevention Centre’.
Projects and main initiative ‘Network of Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures’.
Projects and main initiative ‘European Cancer Patient Digital Centre’.
Contact
For more information you can reach us at: RTD-SANTE-CANCER-MISSION@ec.europa.eu
Cancer Mission implementation: HADEA-HE-MISSION-CANCER@ec.europa.eu
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