The European Partnership for Action Against Cancer (EPAAC) was launched in 2009, after the European Commission published its Communication on Action Against Cancer: European Partnership. The specificity of the Partnership is that it brings together the efforts of different stakeholders into a joint response to prevent and control cancer. In its initial phase, until early 2014, the work of the Part
nership will be taken forward through a Joint Action (co-financed by the EU Health Programme). The National Institute of Public Health in Slovenia has assumed the role of leader of the EPAAC Joint Action, which encompasses 38 associated partners from across Europe and over 90 collaborating partners. Organisationally, the EPAAC Joint Action is made up of ten Work Packages, which correspond to ten different sets of actions: Health Promotion and Prevention, Screening and Early Diagnosis, Healthcare, Cooperation and Coordination in Cancer Research, Cancer Data and Information and national Cancer Plans.
