35. Urges the Commission to amend Recommendation 2003/670/EC to reflect the progress of medical research and to include cancers of the larynx and ovary as asbestos-related;

6. Calls on the EU and the Member States to develop prevention and awareness campaigns that target the most vulnerable groups in society, and stresses that preventive measures and rehabilitative treatments must be non-discriminatory and fully accessible, with a view to encouraging and improving access, without age limits, to the early detection and diagnosis of conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, breast, cervical and ovarian cancer, endometriosis, memory diseases, etc.;

I hope members from every party will join me tonight at the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's reception to mark the foundation's 50th anniversary and the progress made in cystic fibrosis research and care.

When ovaries and other tissues are collected at a slaughterhouse, either from individual animals or from batches of donors (batch collection), the slaughterhouse shall be officially approved in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption (4) and under the supervision of a veterinarian whose responsibility it is to ensure that ante-mortem and post-mortem inspections of potential donor animals are carried out and to certify them to be free of signs of the relevant contagi ...[+++]ous diseases transmissible to animals.

Rare disorders include such conditions as cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease, legionnaires' disease, muscular dystrophy, thalassemia, MPS, pulmonary hypertension, Fabry disease, Gaucher disease, ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, Waldenstrom's anemia, AIDS, and acromegaly, to name a few.

If ovarian cancer is found early and treated, the survival rate is as high as 90%. Therefore your petitioners call upon the Parliament of Canada to focus its legislative support in ensuring that the Government of Canada join the government of United States of America by proclaiming the month of September as ovarian cancer month and support research into finding early detection tests for ovarian cancer and in raising awareness about the seriousness of this women's disease across North America.