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The iPAAC WP5 conference will be changing its structure. The planned Lyon meeting in April is postponed to Autumn 2020.

The Finnish Stakeholder meeting has been postponed to a later date due to coronavirus situation in Europe.

The consultation is addressed to individual citizens, patients, and carers replying in their personal capacity as well as health professionals and organisations involved in cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up care and research.

iPAAC partner FISABIO (Fundació per al Foment de la Investigació Sanitaria I Biomèdica de la Comunitat Valenciana) launched in 2019 a Contest of Best Practices tackling social inequalities in cancer prevention, including both health promotion and cancer screening programmes.

Tackling cancer is one of the von der Leyen Commission’s main priorities in the area of health, since data shows that the number of cancer cases in the EU will double by 2035.

The iPAAC WP5 conference, side event of Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, was held on 5 December 2019 in Helsinki.

The Hungarian Stakeholder Forum will be held at the National Institute of Oncology in Budapest on 11 December 2019.

The 3^rd iPAAC Governmental Board meeting took place on 9 and 10 October 2019 in Barcelona.

The second iPAAC Stakeholder Forum was held on Tuesday, 10 December 2019 in Brussels, a conference room of the FPS Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue.