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To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement on Government participation in Europe Against Cancer week.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement on Government participation in Europe against Cancer week.
The Department hosted the press launch of Europe Against Cancer week in the United Kingdom on 28 April. The week, observed throughout the European Community from 1 to 7 May and marked by a wide range of events organised by the National Health Service, cancer charities and voluntary organisations, was designed to dispel public fears of cancer and to emphasise that many cancers are preventable and curable. We also announced that we were making £100,000 available to provide full or part funding of activities during the week as well as for future projects under the European cancer initiative.