Today, the Commission adopted its Report on the Implementation of the Council Recommendation of 2 December 2003 on cancer screening (2003/878/EC). The report shows that although much progress has been made in cancer screening, the EU as a whole is only about half way to meeting the minimum annual number of examinations that would be expected if the screening tests specified in the Recommendation were available to all EU citizens of the appropriate age (approximately 125 million examinations per year. From the current volume of examinations, only 41% are performed in population-based programmes which provide the organisational framework for implementing quality assurance as required by the Council recommendation.
(Source: www.ec.europa.eu)
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