Need for a specific EU health programme in the next long-term EU budget Improving access to treatment for cancer patients across Europe Reducing financial discrimination for cancer survivors In 2024, 2.7 million people were diagnosed with cancer in the EU and 1.27 million died from the disease. MEPs want the EU to renew its political […]
Commission marks five years of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan
Ahead of World Cancer Day on 4 February, the European Commission has unveiled an update of the European Code Against Cancer. The revised Code sets out practical ways to help prevent the disease and is the result of four years of work by over 60 European public health experts. The guidance is based on scientific evidence […]
PhD – Non-invasive monitoring and prediction of cancer evolutionary dynamics from cfDNA- United Kingdom
Evolutionary Medical Genomics (EvoMG) is a MSCA Doctoral Network programme that pioneers an integrative approach combining Evolutionary Medicine and Medical Genomics to address critical health challenges. By combining evolutionary insights with state-of-the-art genomic tools, EvoMG-DN seeks to establish EvoMG as a structured and impactful discipline in Europe. The network aims to train the next generation […]
PhD – Medical Radiation Physics – Sweden
Medical Radiation Physics is an interdisciplinary subject, which is directed towards development and discovery of new knowledge for applications of radiation and radioactivity. Important fields of application are radiotherapy to treat cancer, radiation diagnostics using X-rays, computed tomography, nuclear medicine and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We mainly work on developing new methods for diagnostic and […]
European Week Against Cancer: providing patients with high-quality healthcare
Each and every EU citizen deserves the very best in cancer care. As it is marked the European Week Against Cancer (25-31 May), the European Commission reaffirms its commitment to achieve a European health union that delivers high-quality healthcare for all. Already through its Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, the Commission has provided support to millions of people […]
PhD – Fellowship in Cancer Nanomedicine – Norway
The University of Stavanger invites applicants for a PhD Fellowship in cancer nanomedicine at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry, Bioscience and Environmental Engineering. This is a trainee position that will give promising researchers an opportunity for academic development through a PhD education leading to a doctoral degree. The hired candidate will be admitted to the […]
Research assistant position in the scientific project SPatial Analysis of Cancer Evolution in the Tumour Immune MicroEnvironment – Poland
The work of the offered PhD position will focus on the development of novel artificial intelligence methods or probabilistic graph models for modeling multimodal spatial lung cancer data. In particular, we are interested in proposing new models able to combine knowledge from multiple datasets of spatial tissue measurements, taking into account the temporal dimension (measurements […]
Bone metastasis from melanoma, new hopes
New research offers hope for better treatment of bone metastases in people with melanoma. A new study has revealed the main mechanism that causes osteocyte death in bone metastasis in melanoma, one of the most malignant types of skin cancer. This research, supported in part by the EU-funded projects ODE and 4-D nanoSCOPE, provides a […]
World Cancer Day: Commission publishes Country Cancer
The Commission has published the latest Country Cancer Profiles for all Member States, Norway and Iceland. The 2025 reports show that cancer survival rates are increasing across the EU. At the same time, cancer continues to be a public health concern, and cancer inequalities still persist across Member States. The profiles also demonstrate how cancer […]