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On the eve of World Cancer Day in February, the European Commission announced an ambitious roadmap to beat cancer and it was very pleasant music to my ears.
The European Beating Cancer Plan comes into sharper focus in the coming days as member states mark the European Week Against Cancer and concentrate on its implementation.
The plan seeks to target the disease pathway comprehensively, including prevention and early detection as its key action areas. The other key action areas are diagnosis and treatment, and the quality of life of cancer patients and survivors.
The age-old adage maintains that prevention is better than cure it is also the most cost-efficient, long-term cancer control strategy. Research shows that almost 50 per cent of cancer cases in the EU are preventable, and we all have a part to play.
Young people interested in promoting healthy lifestyles and raising awareness of cancer prevention are being encouraged to become ambassadors for the European C
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A team of University of Malta researchers has set off to unravel the little-known processes behind elusive tumours in the pituitary - a small gland under the brain.
This gland helps regulate hormones and various other processes in the body, so when a tumour develops there, patients may experience a wide spectrum of severe symptoms such as vision impairment and changes in metabolism.
The research is being made possible through a €1.2 million grant by the Emanuele Cancer Research Foundation Malta (ECRFM).
The university said that because of significant knowledge gap in the role of the immune system in pituitary tumours, academic Josanne Vassallo painstakingly set up a Maltese pituitary tumour tissue bank which has been in operation since the year 2000.