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Acknowledgements
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Preamble
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Executive summary
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Cancer in young people in Europe
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Still a public health issue, despite high survival rates compared to adult cancers
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Unequal access to standard care and research across Europe
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Little progress in difficult-to-treat diseases during the last 5 years
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Paediatric haematology-oncology in Europe
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Strengths
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Weaknesses
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Opportunities
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Threats
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Overall goals and objectives
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The overall goals, until Horizon 2020 and beyond
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The 7 objectives (with equal importance and weight)
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Key success factors to achieve these objectives
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Objective 1: Innovative therapies
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Objective 2: Precision medicine in healthcare
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Objective 3: Increase biology knowledge of paediatric tumours
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Objective 4: Increase equal access to standard care, expertise and clinical research
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Objective 5: Address the needs of teenagers and young adults
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Objective 6: Improve the quality of survivorship
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Objective 7: Understanding the causes of paediatric cancers and addressing
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prevention where possible
Coordination and implementation of the Plan
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Childhood cancer from a societal perspective
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Facilitating platforms and cross-tumour research projects
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Clinical research platform to facilitate the implementation of ECTGs research strategy:
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the CTF Platform
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