The EU is now spending €4 billion on fighting cancer, focusing on understanding the disease and developing new treatments.
By supporting additional screening programmes that include lung and prostate cancers, the EU is moving the focus from treating illness to saving lives through early detection.
Cancer doesn’t choose – but we do.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on World Cancer Day: we choose to fight it together!
Find out more: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2026/782629/EPRS_ATA(2026)782629_EN.pdf