The Lancet Oncology underlines the need for partnership

"The World Cancer Declaration is an ambitious affirmation that needs to resonate with an intensity far greater than that achieved with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - the only notable success story up to now in implementing a global public-health policy with potential to decrease the cancer burden." 

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For more than 10 years, the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) and its founder, cancer survivor and champion cyclist Lance Armstrong, have partnered with other organizations and dedicated advocates to make cancer a national priority in the United States. Now the LAF has launched a global intiative against cancer and is partnering with UICC in calling for signatures to the World Cancer Declaration.

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A platform for European cancer research centres

The World Cancer Declaration should be used as a template for national and regional declarations in which its 11 targets are adapted to the priorities of particular governments, UICC's immediate past president Dr Franco Cavalli told a meeting in Paris in October.

The meeting was intended to advance the movement towards a collaborative platform for cancer research centres in Europe. The Stockholm Declaration (November 2007) recognizes that European cancer research has a strong foundation in biomedical science, good patient registries and biobanks but is still too fragmented to reach the critical mass needed to translate basic research discoveries into clinical settings for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients.

In his keynote speech, Dr Cavalli emphasized that research will play a crucial role if we are to meet the World Cancer Declaration's targets by 2020.

The meeting was held under the auspices of Unesco and the Initiative for Science in Europe and funded by the Danish Cancer Society, a UICC member organization.