European CanCer Organisation

Digital solutions for tackling mental health in cancer patients and their families: The ALTHEA project

Despite advances in cancer treatment, the growing global cancer burden underscores the need for comprehensive and supportive care to address the needs of patients and their families. However, access to psycho-oncological support remains often limited across healthcare systems. Th...

Rigorous, transparent and inconclusive: what Europe’s first joint clinical assessment reveals about a framework trying to serve everyone

On 30 April 2026, the Member State Coordination Group on Health Technology Assessment endorsed Europe’s first joint clinical assessment (JCA) under Regulation (EU) 2021/2282, evaluating tovorafenib (Ojemda) for pediatric low-grade glioma harboring BRAF alterations. This perspecti...

Preregistration: confirmatory test of cross-genealogical form recurrence at length 3 (FORMFIRST)

Hypothesis. Among 20 confirmatory genealogical axis units (116 languages), pronunciation forms of three segments recur identically across at least three genealogically independent units less often than each unit's own phonotactics predicts: obs/E < 1.0 at form length 3. The direc...

Preregistration: confirmatory test of cross-genealogical form recurrence at length 3 (FORMFIRST)

Hypothesis. Among 20 confirmatory genealogical axis units (116 languages), pronunciation forms of three segments recur identically across at least three genealogically independent units less often than each unit's own phonotactics predicts: obs/E < 1.0 at form length 3. The direc...