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With the European Parliament's summer break causing progress on new General Data Protection Regulations to stop, cancer experts have taken the opportunity to criticize the proposal. Opponents of the changes warn they could make it practically impossible for researchers to access patient data for cancer research.
The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) outlined its problems with the current wording in a press release. ESMO is concerned about the need to obtain "explicit and specific patient consent." That line isn't in the...