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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11011
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) health

Cancer still major challenge

Brussels, 04/02/2014 (Agence Europe) - Although significant progress has been made in cancer research, this disease continues to be the cause of death for more than one million people every year throughout the world. On World Cancer Day on 4 February, the European Commission pointed out that the disease remained one of the major public health challenges at the very time that an ageing population would suggest that cases of this disease would increase. Commissioner for Health Tonio Borg,...

Contents

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
INSTITUTIONAL
SECTORAL POLICIES
ECONOMY - FINANCES - ENTREPRISES
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - EDUCATION - CULTURE
EXTERNAL ACTION