Rethink Cancer Campaign

EDM number 69 in 2014-15, proposed by John Leech on 10/06/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases and Health education and preventive medicine.

That this House recognises that as many as one in three individuals in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lifetime; calls for young people growing up in the UK to receive better education about cancer; supports CoppaFeel!'s #RETHINKCANCER campaign to make cancer awareness education a statutory requirement in schools; and further calls for statutory provision to ensure that wider issues of health and wellbeing are included in the national curriculum for personal, social, health and economic education.

This motion has been signed by a total of 40 MPs.