Dutch cancer plan aims to slash death rates, boost prevention

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More than 100 institutes and groups, including hospitals, patients’ organisations and government departments will on Monday launch a new organisation to reduce cancer – the Nederlands Kanker Collectief, the Dutch cancer collective or NKC. The collective has drawn up 20 targets ranging from prevention to palliative care and will focus initially on stopping smoking, early detection, rare cancers, the effect of late detection and cancer’s impact on work. The Netherlands, the founders say, is the only country in the EU without...
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