\u201cMedical advances in cancer today increasingly allow it to be called a chronic disease with a long-term survival, which is great and promising news. That is why it seems unacceptable to us, cancer patients, that in some EU countries the chances of a patient diagnosed with ‘cancer’ surviving are as unpredictable as winning a million in the lottery.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not acceptable, that in the East-Central Europe countries people are afraid to get sick and die from \u201cthe wrong cancer\u201d. Scared because of the lack of timely diagnosis, lack of knowledgeable specialists and state-reimbursed innovative drugs, while in Western Europe this type of cancer is successfully treated, and patients can live for many years.<\/p>\n
We are no longer willing to accept the long-standing inequalities in cancer treatment, and therefore along with the policy makers want to raise this problem and find effective solutions to bring this injustice to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n
Olga Valci\u0146a, Member of the Board of Latvian Association of Oncology Patient Organizations \u201cOncoAlliance\u201d<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cMedical advances in cancer today increasingly allow it to be called a chronic disease with a long-term survival, which is great and promising news. That is why it seems unacceptable to us, cancer patients, that in some EU countries the chances of a patient diagnosed with ‘cancer’ surviving are as unpredictable as winning a million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"frontpage.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-680","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n