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Press Release
4 pages, 842K
December 2023

From death to discrimination sentence: when surviving cancer equals being denied basic rights

Being denied loans and adoptions, because of one’s medical records. The ‘return to life of many cancer survivors is a history of discrimination. European institutions and some member states are pushing for their “Right to be forgotten” but experts call for a deeper cultural change: “To overcome the stigma, our societies must acknowledge medicine’s progress: cancer is no longer a death sentence”

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