Remarks by Vice-President Schinas at the press conference on Europe's Beating Cancer Plan

At the start of the Commission's mandate, we committed to propose a European Beating Cancer Plan. Today, we are honouring this commitment, which is needed more than ever.

2020 will be remembered primarily for COVID-19 patients and victims. But, the pandemic has also had a severe impact on cancer prevention and care across the EU; it has disrupted diagnosis and treatment, which foreshadows a worrying increase of cancer cases in the future.

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