Event in European Parliament will mark European Prostate Cancer Awareness Day
Europa Uomo is encouraging men with prostate cancer across Europe to mark European Prostate Cancer Awareness Day (EPAD) and to organise their own associated activities.
Each year, EPAD aims to raise awareness, understanding and knowledge of prostate disease, its early detection and management.
This year EPAD will be held on 3rd September, when policy makers, researchers, scientists, health professionals, researchers and European patient groups will gather in the European Parliament in Brussels at an event to mark the day. Among those attending will be representatives of Europa Uomo member organisations who taking part in the Europa Uomo Summer School in Brussels from 31st August to 5th September.
Erik Briers, Europa Uomo Chair, says that any men with prostate cancer and their organisations are welcome to attend. But he also wants to encourage Europa Uomo member organisations to organise their own events to raise awareness of prostate cancer.
“We know that different countries campaign to raise prostate cancer awareness at different times,” he says. “But we hope that the work we are doing for EPAD will set a model which other organisations can follow as they like.”
Europa Uomo will be posting resources to raise awareness of prostate cancer on its website. It will also shortly announce a major new awareness and fundraising initiative for later in the year.
Confirmed speakers at the EPAD event at the European Parliament on 3rd September include: Hein Van Poppel, Head of the European Association of Urology Policy Office; Monique Roobol, head of the scientific office at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam and a leader of the PRAISE-U project; and Peter Baker, Director of Global Action on Men’s Health.