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Early Cancer Institute

 
EU cancer screening recommendations 2022

Extended access to existing screening programmes and introduction of three new screening programmes are the recommendations made in the final report from the European Commission’s group of Chief Scientific Advisors, co-chaired by Early Cancer Institute Director Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald.

The proposed Recommendation introduces a new EU approach for best practices to improve cancer screening, replacing the current one, which has been in place for 20 years and was in urgent need of updating. The proposal is a flagship initiative of Europe's Beating Cancer Plan and reflects the latest available scientific developments and evidence.

The new EU approach, based on the latest available scientific developments and evidence, will ensure that 90% of the EU population who qualify for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screenings are offered such screening by 2025. The new recommendation also expands population-based organised cancer screening to include lung, prostate and, under certain circumstances, gastric cancers.

Institute Director Rebecca Fitzgerald was interviewed on the proposals by the EU Research and Innovation magazine Horizon. Read the interview here.