MEPs Against Cancer

{{Notability|Organizations|date=March 2011}} {{Infobox organization | name = MEPs Against Cancer | image = MEPs Against Cancer logo.png | image_size =  | abbreviation = MAC | formation = 2005 | type = [[Advocacy group]] | status =  | purpose =  | location = Brussels, Belgium | region_served = [[European Union]] | num_members = [[Members of the European Parliament]] | language =  | leader_title = Chair | leader_name = [[Romana Jerković]] | affiliations = [[European Parliament]] | website = [https://www.cancer.eu/mac-membership/ Official website] }}

'''MEPs Against Cancer''' is a group of 23 [[Member of the European Parliament|Members of the European Parliament]] who aim to "promote action on cancer as an [[European Union|EU]] priority and harness European health policy to that end" and to encourage every country to develop a national plan for combating cancer.<ref name=about>{{cite web|url=http://www.mepsagainstcancer.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070525014635/http://www.mepsagainstcancer.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=27 |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 May 2007 |title=About MAC (MEPs Against Cancer) |publisher=MEPs Against Cancer |accessdate=21 March 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/publicpolicy/workingwithgovernment/europe/events/macmeeting/index.htm|title='Fewer Patients - More Cancer Survivors - What national Cancer Plans can do'|publisher=[[Cancer Research UK]]|date=16 January 2007|accessdate=21 March 2010}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

During the [[Ninth European Parliament|2019–2024 parliament]], the group was chaired by Cypriot MEP [[Loukas Fourlas]] and French MEP [[Véronique Trillet-Lenoir]] until her death in 2023.<ref name="about" /><ref name="TPM">{{cite news|title=Europe in Wide Screen|url=http://www.e-pages.dk/dods/91/|pages=4–5|publisher=The Parliament Magazine|date=February 2008|accessdate=21 March 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=MEPs Against Cancer: MAC MEPs {{!}} Association of European Cancer Leagues - ECL|date=12 December 2017|url=https://www.europeancancerleagues.org/meps-against-cancer-mac-meps/|access-date=2020-11-12|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-12-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211216073915/https://www.europeancancerleagues.org/meps-against-cancer-mac-meps/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=La députée européenne française Véronique Trillet-Lenoir est morte à 66 ans |url=https://www.bfmtv.com/politique/la-republique-en-marche/la-deputee-europeenne-francaise-veronique-trillet-lenoir-est-morte-a-66-ans_AD-202308090507.html |access-date=2023-08-31 |website=BFMTV |language=fr}}</ref> The members of the group came from 25 [[Member state of the European Union|EU member states]] and all [[Political groups of the European Parliament|EU parliament groups]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-12-12 |title=MEPs Against Cancer: About MEPs Against Cancer {{!}} Association of European Cancer Leagues - ECL |url=https://www.europeancancerleagues.org/meps-against-cancer-about-meps-against-cancer-2/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230211002037/https://www.cancer.eu/meps-against-cancer-about-meps-against-cancer-2/ |archive-date=2023-02-11 |access-date=2021-12-26 |language=en-US}}</ref>

In the incumbent [[Tenth European Parliament|2024–2029 parliament]], the group has 23 MEPs from 19 member states.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=MAC MEPs in the 2024-2029 legislature |url=https://www.cancer.eu/meps-against-cancer-mac-meps/ |url-status= |access-date=21 January 2025 |website=MEPs Against Cancer}}</ref> Croatian MEP [[Romana Jerković]] is the current chair of the group.<ref name=":0" />

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==External links==

* {{official website|https://www.cancer.eu/mac-membership/}}

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