04/02/2019
Speech by Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis on the occasion of the World Cancer Day
Axiotime kyrie Proedre, Kirie Ipourge, Kiries kai kirioi, Chéromai idiétera pou vriskomai stin Athina simera mazi sas, prokeiménou na sizitisoume ta thémata igias pou prokiptoun apo to kápnisma. To kápnisma katastréfei tis zoés mas, ti zoi ton paidión mas kai ton eggonón mas, eno episis ripéni to perivállon. To kápnisma mas skotóni sigá sigá.*[i] In 2016, scientists discovered evidence of cancer in a 1.7-million-year-old bone belonging to a human relative in South Africa. It seems that cancer is as old as time itself. In fact, it has accompanied us through the ages. Around 2600 BC, an Egyptian physician wrote about a 'bulging mass in the breast' that was resistant to treatment. It is...
