Policy Work
Youth Cancer Europe is committed to speak with a single representative voice of young people with cancer and together with other relevant stakeholders, through strategic partnerships in Europe, engage with EU policy-makers to influence the European health and research policies
Together we can help shape European policy, collaborate in and promote research, fight for better access to care, for better treatments, better conditions and help fix disparities that exist across Europe for young people fighting cancer. Youth with cancer must be present from the beginning when setting any kind of agenda for research and policymaking, to ensure that priorities are in line with patients’ priorities. We can provide decision makers first-hand with the patient perspective.
April 16, 2024 •
The European Parliament event organised by Youth Cancer Europe and hosted by MEP Stelios Kympouropoulos brought discrimination into focus and addressed the needs of minorities, vulnera...
Equity Diversity Inclusion
June 6, 2024 •
Between the 5th and 8th of November , Youth Cancer Europe hosted the ' From Prejudice to Progress: Discrimination, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Round Table and Workshops ' event as leader...
Equity Diversity Inclusion Youth Cancer Network
July 6, 2024 •
After visiting 5 European hospitals last year to learn and observe the best practices in Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Care (AYA oncology) as part of the European Union Co-funded project Euro...
Youth Cancer Network
Peer Visits as research method for Youth with lived experience
July 6, 2024 •
On February 8, 2023 Youth Cancer Europe hosted the “Peer Visit as Research Method” Training in Brussels, Belgium, in preparation for future observational and partici...
Youth Cancer Network
Youth Cancer Europe's Webinar on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Cancer Care
July 6, 2024 •
On April 30th, 2024, Youth Cancer Europe hosted an insightful webinar on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in Cancer Care. This event, part of the European Union Co-funded project European N...
Equity Diversity Inclusion Youth Cancer Network
Youth Cancer Europe participates in EU’s Cancer Mission Consultations
July 6, 2024 •
In 2023, under the Quality-of-Life objective, the EU Cancer Mission organised a series of thematic workshops and a conference focused on dialogue with young cancer survivors. The aim was to gai...
EU Institutional Engagement Youth Cancer Network
Video: YCE returns to the European Parliament to address Fertility and Mental Health
Jan. 26, 2021 •
Earlier this month, YCE’s Katie Rizvi spoke at the European Commission’s Beating Cancer Committee’s (BECA) public hearing, set up to aid MEPs draft their report on Euro...
Cancer & Fertility Mental Health
Cancer & Fertility – A Youth Cancer Europe Advocacy Project
June 30, 2022 •
However, despite Europe’s ageing population and an increasing consideration for European citizens’ right to build a family , awareness of this issue remains low and discussions linking fertility a...
Cancer & Fertility
YCE Webinar - “Chemo Brain: Cancer & Mental Health”
Jan. 19, 2021 •
Lauren Mahon Lauren Mahon, aka GIRL vs CANCER, is a prese...
Mental Health
YCE speaks at the European Parliament's hemicycle for World Cancer Day
Feb. 5, 2020 •
On World Cancer Day 2020, Youth Cancer Europe was invited by the European Commission to be par...
EU Institutional Engagement