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Article: MEPS CALL ON EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO PRESENT PROGRESS REPORT ON STEPS TAKEN TO LOWER BREAST CANCER MORTALITY RATES
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- October 25, 2006
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The European Union's European Parliament issued the following press release:
In adopting a joint resolution on breast cancer in the enlarged EU, MEPs call on the European Commission to present without delay the progress report, which it called for by 2006 in its resolution of 5 June 2003, on the steps taken by the Member States to lower breast cancer mortality rates. The joint resolution was adopted with 641 votes in favour, 11 against with 4 abstentions.
Every year 275,000 women in the EU contract breast cancer, and 88,000 women and 1,000 men die from it. MEPs adopted a resolution today on actions to combat this leading cause of death in women aged between 35 and 59 and the commonest ...