European Prostate Cancer Awareness Day
17 November 2020

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Calling on the EU to address PCa in the Cancer Plan

The first virtual edition of the European Prostate Cancer Awareness Day is a wrap! The EPAD20 partners would like to thank you for your participation. With nearly 400 viewers joining us live, we look back at a successful edition.

In case you have missed one of the presentations or would like to watch the entire event, the following content is now available:

A special thanks to MEPs Tiemo Wölken and Tomislav Sokol for chairing the programme and addressing the important topics of early detection and awareness raising of prostate cancer.

Incidence

Every year, around 450,000 European men are diagnosed with prostate cancer. It has overtaken colorectal cancer.

Mortality

107,000 European men die of prostate cancer each year. The cancer kills more men than breast cancer kills women.

Costs

The yearly costs of PCa in Europe are 9 billion euros, with healthcare accounting for 5.8 billion euros.

The EPAD20 partners