ABC Global Alliance
General Information
Identification Code: 470824037205-61
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Entity Form: Association
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 2/3/2020
Last Update: 6/7/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
Goals: The ABC Global Alliance established in 2016 as an initiative of the European School of Oncology and now registered as a non-profit association in Portugal, is a multi-stakeholder platform for all those interested in collaborating on common projects relating to advanced breast cancer with the aim to improve and extend the lives of women and men living with advanced breast cancer in all countries worldwide and to fight for a cure.
Our goal is also to raise awareness of advanced breast cancer and lobby worldwide for the improvement of the lives of advanced breast cancer patients.
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
- Employment and social affairs
- Justice and fundamental rights
- Public health
- Research and innovation
Levels of Interest:
- global
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: Being one of the major stakeholders on advanced breast cancer we are interested in providing our support on the Europe's Beating Cancer Plan. In this frame we ha a preliminary meeting with the Commissioner for Health and Food Safety on 5 February 2020 to offer our support. We are attending webinars and meeting on the Europe's Beating Cancer Plan and are are registered on the EU Health Policy Platform Agora Network (including the thematic group “Quality of Life” of the Stakeholder Contact Group on the Europe's Beating Cancer Plan).
To reinforce the spirit of collaboration and support to the initiative the EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety gave an opening lecture at our Advanced Breast Cancer Sixth International Consensus Conference last November addressing an inspiting lecture on "Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan and advanced cancer patients". She endorsed the fortcoming Advanced Breast Cancer Seventh International Consensus Conference that will take place in November as hybrid event (Lisbon and online) and she will be sending a video message that will be included in the opening ceremony. One of the Special Adviser to the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety on cancer policy will be one of the Honorary Chaors at our conference.
We are members of an initiative called Transforming Breast Cancer Together. launched in 2017, that brings together policymakers, patient organisations, professional organisations and companies committed to raising awareness of the daily realities of living with breast cancer. In the frame of this collaboration we recently had a meeting with the Cabinet of the Commissioner and DG Sante to evaluate how to support the implementation of the plan.
Communication Activities: - I have Cancer but I want to work. Working rights for Cancer patients, event organized on 7 November 2018
- Meeting with Commissioner Stella Kyriakides, 5 February 2020
- Advanced Breast Cancer Sixth International Consensus Conference, 4-6 November 2021 (virtual)
- Paper on "Gaps in Care and Support for Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer: A Report From the Advanced Breast Cancer Global Alliance" published on JCO on Sept 2021
- Awareness campaign launched in November 2021 titled "The truth about working with advanced breast cancer" (https://www.workingwithabc.com/)
- Paper on "Addressing disparities and challenges in underserved patient populations with metastatic breast cancer in Europe " published in The Breast in Dec 2020
- Development of a QoL tool specific for ABC, in partnership with EORTC Quality of Life and Breast Cancer Groups (in progress)
- Development of a Quality indicators for ABC/mBC, in partnership with ESO and EUSOMA https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959804923001648
- Uncovering international disparities in metastatic breast cancer outcomes, in partnership with IARC (in progress)
- Project to calculate the finantial impact of more flexible labour laws for cancer patients, in collaboration with Lisbon Medical University (report to be published soon). We are also considering to implement a similar initiative in Italy and Cyprus
- Contributors to The Lancet Commission on Breast Cancer published on April 2024 https://www.abcglobalalliance.org/resources#lancet-commission
- Contributors to the WHO Global Breast Cancer Initiative and as such contributors in the report that will be published in 2023 https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240065987
- An awareness campaign on access to care realeased in November 2023 https://www.abcglobalalliance.org/what-we-do#campaigns
-- Advanced Breast Cancer Seventh International Consensus Conference, November 2023 including definition of guidelines for treatment of metastatic disease (https://www.thebreastonline.com/article/S0960-9776(24)00087-0/fulltext)
- We are currently working on a global report, analyzing the ABC landscape in the decade 2015-2025 that will be released in November 2025
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Cancer
Head Office
Address: c/o Fundação ChampalimaudAvenida de Brasília s/n
Post Code: 1400-038
City: Lisbon
Country: PORTUGAL
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EU Office
Address: c/o Fundação ChampalimaudAvenida de Brasília s/n
Post Code: 1400-038
City: Lisbon
Country: PORTUGAL
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Financial Data
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Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 1
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 1
Members F T E: 0.25
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: List of members available at https://www.abcglobalalliance.org/who-we-are#members
Organisation Members: Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) https://www.uicc.org/
Global Cancer Coalitions Network (GCCN) https://www.globalccn.org/
African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC) https://aortic-africa.org/
ECO Community 365 https://www.europeancancer.org/community-365
Transforming Breast Cancer Together (TBCT) https://www.tbct.eu/