11-01-2021 13:45
Public Hearing: Beating cancer - empowering patients and their caregivers
Brussels, European Parliament, Room: ANTALL 4Q1 and with remote participation
The Beating Cancer committee (BECA) put patients and their caregivers first on Monday 11 January 2021during a hearing that was entirely dedicated to patients' experiences and their recommendations for the forthcoming BECA report.
Cancer patients face various problems such as:
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- physical trauma
- mental health issues
- difficulties to return to school, work or leisure
- work-life balance issues
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- Hearing programme (PDF - 272 KB)
- Watch again: PART 1 (13.45 - 16.15): Patients’ Rights, including the right to be forgotten, as well as patient-centred healthcare systems (Link to recorded meeting)
- Watch again: PART 2 (16.45 - 18.45): Survivorship, Quality of Life and Caregivers (Link to recorded meeting)
- Summary of the hearing (PDF - 816 KB)
- BECA Background Note: Patients and Caregivers
- Biography Dr Jan Geissler, founder and managing director of “Patvocates”
- Presentation Dr Jan Geissler: Patient perspective on the EU role on beating cancer, and how MEPs could work with uson meaningful EU policies for cancer patients, founder and managing director of “Patvocates”
- Biography Willy Palm, Unit Team Leader, WHO Regional Office for Europe
- Presentation Willy Palm: Patients’ rights to achieve more patient-centred healthcare systems
- Biography Prof. Françoise Meunier, Vice-President of the Federation of European Academies of Medicines
- Biography Stefan Gijssels, Chief Executive Officer of “Digestive Cancers Europe”
- Presentation Stefan Gijssels: Quality Cancer Care
- Biography Dr Stanimir Hasardzhiev, Chairperson of the Bulgarian National Patients’ Organisation, Secretary General of the Patient Access Partnership (PACT)
- Presentation Dr Stanimir Hasardzhiev (PDF - 1 MB)
- Biography Dr Matti Aapro, Member of the Board of Directors of the Genolier Cancer Center, Genolier, Switzerland; President (2020-2021) European Cancer Organisation
- Presentation Dr Matti Aapro: Doing More on Survivorship & Quality of Life
- Biography Katie Rizvi, co-founder of Youth Cancer Europe, member of the Children’s Medicines Working Party of The European Forum for Good Clinical Practice
- Presentation Katie Rizvi: Five calls to action
- Biography Dr Nicolò Battisti, Medical oncologist, President-Elect of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology
- Presentation Dr Nicolò Battisti: Challenges and opportunities to improve the care of older adults with cancer in Europe Medical oncologist, President-Elect of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology
- Biography Prof. Andreas Charalambous, President of the European Oncology Nursing Society
- Presentation Prof. Andreas Charalambous: Survivorship, Quality of Life and Caregivers: the opportunities opened up by the EU Beating Cancer Plan
- Biography Claire Champeix, Policy and Project Officer at “Eurocarers”
- Presentation Claire Champeix, Policy and Project Officer at “Eurocarers”
- Link to photos - first panel
- Link to photos - second panel
- Poster (PDF - 408 KB)