Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-04-09-Speech-3-190"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-04-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Combating cancer in the enlarged EU (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"sk"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080409.22.3-190"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-04-09-Speech-3-1922
lpv:speaker	lp:Anna Záborská2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; DEVE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3 chair; FEMM (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Although calling the number of cancer cases in the European Union an ‘epidemic’ is alarming, it is an appropriate term because cancer claims over 1 million lives a year. However, epidemics spread in those countries where the hygiene and epidemiology standards are not met and people live in poor conditions or do not have access to effective health care. I do not know which of these conditions the EU fulfils. We are talking about a cancer epidemic in the EU at the same time as we are talking about improving the economy and competitiveness, about massive investment in prevention, in new effective treatment methods and in the pharmaceutical industry. My country, the Slovak Republic, has for more than 30 years been running a national oncology programme to prevent cancer. In spite of that, cancer incidence rates continue to rise. Is this the doctors’ fault or the patients’ fault? How are the EU funds for cancer prevention used? In 2003 the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality prepared an own-initiative report on breast cancer. Although it accurately identified the causes and possible solutions, only a little of what was included in the report has been implemented. Sometimes I feel that the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing and that our society, and the EU as a whole, deliberately keep quiet about the real reasons for this disease, perhaps in order to project a better image and for fear of telling the truth. Fighting cancer cannot be a priority for just one EU presidency. Its implementation as a systematic EU policy should already have been the norm for several years."@en1

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