European cancer patient advocacy networks in action


WECAN: The Network of Cancer Patient Organisations in Europe

WECAN serves as a network and platform for European cancer patient organisations to collaborate, learn, and align to strengthen European patient advocacy.

COLLABORATING FOR CANCER PATIENTS IN EUROPE

WECAN is the network of more than 20 pan-European cancer patient umbrella organisations which have with thousands of cancer patient organisations across WHO Europe in their membership. WECAN is well-governed, bottom-up, inclusive, democratic, empowering, agile, powerful and collaborative.

WECAN’s mission is to act as a well-coordinated cancer patient community towards all stakeholders by building levels of trust, collaboration, alignment and mutual support in the pan-European cancer patient community.

WHAT WE DO