Co-author Professor Fabio Levi (MD), Head of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the Institute of Social and Preventive
Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, (Switzerland), said: «Besides enforcing tobacco control — essentially by increasing taxation — national governments and EU policy makers must ensure that all EU citizens have
access to the best screening, diagnosis and treatment, including those from central and eastern Europe where major
delays are still observed and where cancer mortality rates tend
to be higher as a result.»