Turning the Stockholm Declaration into reality: Creating a world-class infrastructure for cancer research in Europe

Martine Piccart described the new interdisciplinarity that is essential to reach the goal of truly personalised medicine.

150 scientists, clinicians, politicians, managers and patient and industry representatives met at the UNESCO building in Paris last month.

An existing European initiative to improve infrastructures in Europe, the ESFRI, could be one route through which the Stockholm Declaration is enacted.

The panel debates how best to improve coordination of cancer research in Europe.