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Penilla Gunther: Save the Date – European Commission World Cancer Day conference, 31 January 2024

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Nov 16, 2023, 17:00

Penilla Gunther: Save the Date – European Commission World Cancer Day conference, 31 January 2024

Penilla Gunther shared on LinkedIn:

“Save the Date – European Commission World Cancer Day conference, 31 January 2024!
Changing the realities of cancer is a central priority of the European Health Union.
Three years after the adoption of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, Stella Kyriakides, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, will host the fourth high-level event to mark World Cancer Day, on 31 January 2024, in the Charlemagne Building in Brussels.
The successful implementation of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan necessitates ambitious investment and effective collaboration. The conference will be an opportunity to hear from patients, healthcare professionals and relevant experts on the impact that the unprecedented EU mobilisation to improve cancer care in the EU is having on improving the lives of all those touched by this disease.
The conference will also showcase cancer-related EU projects, funded from the € 4 billion Cancer Plan budget, which support cancer prevention, early detection, treatment and care, and quality of life.
Save the date and join us as we take stock of the EU’s most ambitious ever initiative against cancer.”

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Source: Penilla Gunther/LinkedIn

Penilla Gunther is a member of the EU Cancer Mission and Former Member of Swedish Parliament. She is an experienced policy maker as former Member of Swedish Parliament, the Nordic Council and chair of the Welfare Committee, and also from local and regional councils. She is the founder of FOKUS Patient, a digital and physical meeting place for life science & healthcare with a patient perspective, President of the European Patient Safety Foundation and appointed by the European Commission as an Expert in the Cancer Mission Board. Penilla is a life-long patient as being heart transplanted 15 years ago and cancer survivor twice. Penilla Gunther co-chaired the European Cancer Organization’s SmartCARE steering committee, a landmark initiative of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan under the EU4Health Programme, digital tool to reduce the communication gap between survivors and health and social-care providers.