The European Cancer Organisation is the largest multi-professional, multidisciplinary society in Europe dedicated to fighting this ubiquitous disease. As a not-for-profit federation of member organisations, it promotes more efficient, effective, and equitable health policies.

This case study explores the development and impact of EUROPA DONNA – The European Breast Cancer Coalition (ED), the first pan-European patient advocacy organization. Founded in 1994, ED emerged from a need to unify and empower breast cancer patients across Europe amid widespread stigma, disparities in care, and lack of patient representation.

Targeted screening could hugely improve the chances for lung cancers to be picked up early enough to be cured. Yet lung cancer screening remains a low priority in Europe. Janet Fricker looks at the evidence supporting screening, and at the questions regions and countries need to address to develop screening programmes that work for their populations and health systems.