Brussels, 15/05/2001 (Agence Europe) - Commissioner Philippe Busquin is organising, on 22 and 23 May in Brussels, a meeting with high level research workers from 30 countries in order to improve the coordination of European cancer research. It will be a question of seeking solutions for remedying the fragmentation of European effort and to catch up the American teams.
In the EU, 837,000 people die of cancer each year, that is a quarter of annual deaths. Four million new cases are diagnosed...