The most efficient strategy against many types of cancer is to minimize the risk of avoidable cancers through prevention. The approaches in the new strategy are an important step in the right direction. Among other things, it addresses the dangers of alcohol, tobacco and air pollution. However, cancer prevention goes further than what the EU Commission is proposing here: In particular, there is a lack of binding measures to ban carcinogenic environmental toxins from our everyday lives. The so-called endocrine disruptors are directly linked to the spread of hormonal cancers and are still far too prevalent in our everyday lives. For example, we are constantly exposed to carcinogenic substances through certain food packaging, cosmetics and even children's toys. This also includes placing a stronger focus on the massive use of pesticides in agriculture and how these are linked to cancer in the surrounding population, to name just two examples. The Commission must become much more ambitious here," emphasizes the MEP from the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP).