MEPs Against Cancer

{{Notability|Organizations|date=March 2011}}

{{Infobox organization

| name = MEPs Against Cancer

| image = MEPs Against Cancer logo.png

| size =

| abbreviation = MAC

| formation = 2005

| type = Advocacy group

| status =

| purpose =

| location = Brussels, Belgium

| region_served = European Union

| membership = Members of the European Parliament

| language =

| leader_title = Chair

| leader_name = Romana Jerković

| affiliations = European Parliament

| website = [https://www.cancer.eu/mac-membership/ Official website]

}}

MEPs Against Cancer is a group of 23 Members of the European Parliament who aim to "promote action on cancer as an EU priority and harness European health policy to that end" and to encourage every country to develop a national plan for combating cancer.{{cite web|url=http://www.mepsagainstcancer.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070525014635/http://www.mepsagainstcancer.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=27 |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 May 2007 |title=About MAC (MEPs Against Cancer) |publisher=MEPs Against Cancer |accessdate=21 March 2010 }}{{cite web|url=http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/publicpolicy/workingwithgovernment/europe/events/macmeeting/index.htm|title='Fewer Patients - More Cancer Survivors - What national Cancer Plans can do'|publisher=Cancer Research UK|date=16 January 2007|accessdate=21 March 2010}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}

During the 2019–2024 parliament, the group was chaired by Cypriot MEP Loukas Fourlas and French MEP Véronique Trillet-Lenoir until her death in 2023.{{cite news|title=Europe in Wide Screen|url=http://www.e-pages.dk/dods/91/|pages=4–5|publisher=The Parliament Magazine|date=February 2008|accessdate=21 March 2010}}{{Cite web|title=MEPs Against Cancer: MAC MEPs {{!}} Association of European Cancer Leagues - ECL|date=12 December 2017 |url=https://www.europeancancerleagues.org/meps-against-cancer-mac-meps/|access-date=2020-11-12|language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=La députée européenne française Véronique Trillet-Lenoir est morte à 66 ans |url=https://www.bfmtv.com/politique/la-republique-en-marche/la-deputee-europeenne-francaise-veronique-trillet-lenoir-est-morte-a-66-ans_AD-202308090507.html |access-date=2023-08-31 |website=BFMTV |language=fr}} The members of the group came from 25 EU member states and all EU parliament groups.{{Cite web |date=2017-12-12 |title=MEPs Against Cancer: About MEPs Against Cancer {{!}} Association of European Cancer Leagues - ECL |url=https://www.europeancancerleagues.org/meps-against-cancer-about-meps-against-cancer-2/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230211002037/https://www.cancer.eu/meps-against-cancer-about-meps-against-cancer-2/ |archive-date=2023-02-11 |access-date=2021-12-26 |language=en-US}}

In the incumbent 2024–2029 parliament, the group has 23 MEPs from 19 member states.{{Cite web |title=MAC MEPs in the 2024-2029 legislature |url=https://www.cancer.eu/meps-against-cancer-mac-meps/ |url-status= |access-date=21 January 2025 |website=MEPs Against Cancer}} Croatian MEP Romana Jerković is the current chair of the group.