MEPs Against Cancer

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MEPs Against Cancer
AbbreviationMAC
Formation2005
Type Advocacy group
Location
  • Brussels, Belgium
Region served
European Union
Membership Members of the European Parliament
Chair
 Romana Jerković
Affiliations European Parliament
Website Official website

MEPs Against Cancer is a group of 23 Members of the European Parliament who aim to "promote action on cancer as an EU priority and harness European health policy to that end" and to encourage every country to develop a national plan for combating cancer. [1] [2]

During the 2019–2024 parliament, the group was chaired by Cypriot MEP Loukas Fourlas and French MEP Véronique Trillet-Lenoir until her death in 2023. [1] [3] [4] [5] The members of the group came from 25 EU member states and all EU parliament groups. [6]

In the incumbent 2024–2029 parliament, the group has 23 MEPs from 19 member states. [7] Croatian MEP Romana Jerković is the current chair of the group. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "About MAC (MEPs Against Cancer)". MEPs Against Cancer. Archived from the original on 25 May 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2010.
  2. ↑ "'Fewer Patients - More Cancer Survivors - What national Cancer Plans can do'". Cancer Research UK. 16 January 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2010.[ dead link ]
  3. ↑ "Europe in Wide Screen". The Parliament Magazine. February 2008. pp. 4–5. Retrieved 21 March 2010.
  4. ↑ "MEPs Against Cancer: MAC MEPs | Association of European Cancer Leagues - ECL". 12 December 2017. Retrieved 2020-11-12.
  5. ↑ "La députée européenne française Véronique Trillet-Lenoir est morte à 66 ans". BFMTV (in French). Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  6. ↑ "MEPs Against Cancer: About MEPs Against Cancer | Association of European Cancer Leagues - ECL". 2017-12-12. Archived from the original on 2023-02-11. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
  7. 1 2 "MAC MEPs in the 2024-2029 legislature". MEPs Against Cancer. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
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