PMID- 17432565
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070503
LR  - 20190907
IS  - 0080-0015 (Print)
IS  - 0080-0015 (Linking)
VI  - 175
DP  - 2007
TI  - Europa Uomo: the European Prostate Cancer Coalition.
PG  - 267-71
AB  - Europa Uomo is a patient-led, non-governmental association (NGO), launched 
      formally in Milan in 2004 with a legal base in Antwerp. As a coalition of 
      prostate cancer patient groups with representation in 18 European countries, the 
      NGO focusses on awareness, early detection, optimal treatment, multi-professional 
      care and, above all, quality of life and patient advocacy. In the majority of 
      European countries prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer 
      affecting men beyond middle age. The incidence and substantial mortality rises 
      with age, peaking in the seventh decade. Standards of diagnosis and treatment 
      vary across Europe and attitudes differ. Information about the early detection 
      and awareness of prostate cancer available to the public leaves much to be 
      desired. Since 2002, involved individuals, patient support groups, patients, 
      family members, physicians, urologists, oncologists and nurses joined in the 
      formation of an independent, international, non-profit association of patient-led 
      prostate cancer support groups from European countries known as Europa Uomo, the 
      European Prostate Cancer Coalition. This Coalition was legally established as an 
      NGO in June 2004 in Milan with the headquarters and secretariat in Antwerp, 
      Belgium. Its membership represents 18 countries by the national or regional 
      groups listed in Table 16.1 with their respective contact persons. The coalition 
      is led by a steering committee under the control of the annual general assembly. 
      The steering committee members and their co-ordinates are listed in Table 16.2. 
      Scientific advice is given by a scientific committee chaired by Prof. H. Van 
      Poppel as the liaison officer with the European Association of Urology (EAU). The 
      support for EAU guidelines appears on the Web site and will be linked to all 
      members in their own language (www.cancerworld.org/europauomo). The goals and 
      activities of Europa Uomo have been condensed in a series of slides at the 
      request of the Eurocan+Plus collaboration to facilitate international 
      collaboration. These slides have been listed in Tables 16.3, 16.4 16.5, 16.6, 
      16.7, 16.8, 16.9, 16.10, 16.11, 16.12, 16.13 and 16.14. It should be noted that 
      membership includes supporting activities for patients and adherence to our 10 
      objectives listed in the manifest (Tables 16.4-16.6). The bottom line is that the 
      coalition focuses on peer-to-peer support, information and education, as well as 
      partnership with professional associations. We in Europa Uomo hope to see the 
      decrease in over-treatment and mortality of prostate cancer by the clinical 
      activities, trials and research of the professional organizations. We have the 
      great opportunity to be supported and sponsored by the European School of 
      Oncology (ESO) and its director Dr. A. Costa. The European Society of Medical 
      oncology (ESMO), the International Consultation of Urological Diseases (ICUD) and 
      the International Prostate Health Council (IPHC) support our advice on scientific 
      data. It is quite natural that all of our members have joined the European Cancer 
      Patients Coalition (ECPC) to speak for all European patients with one voice. We 
      are a young association but ambitious enough to launch several projects in 
      addition to the Web site, such as the Prostate Passport, a global coalition of 
      patient support organizations, and a series of patient symposia. In this way we 
      are able to show our support and collaboration with all health workers, including 
      nurses, social workers, nutritionists and psychologists. We like to conclude this 
      contribution with a list of questions to the experts from our participation in 
      the 6th International Consultation of Urological Diseases (ICUD) symposium in 
      Paris (Hudson et al. 2006).
FAU - Hudson, Tom
AU  - Hudson T
AD  - Europa Uomo, Men Against Cancer, Killiney, Dublin, Ireland.
FAU - Denis, Louis J
AU  - Denis LJ
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - Germany
TA  - Recent Results Cancer Res
JT  - Recent results in cancer research. Fortschritte der Krebsforschung. Progres dans 
      les recherches sur le cancer
JID - 0044671
SB  - IM
MH  - Europe
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Prostatic Neoplasms/diagnosis/*prevention & control
RF  - 2
EDAT- 2007/04/17 09:00
MHDA- 2007/05/04 09:00
CRDT- 2007/04/17 09:00
PHST- 2007/04/17 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/05/04 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/04/17 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/978-3-540-40901-4_16 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Recent Results Cancer Res. 2007;175:267-71. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-40901-4_16.