Cancer complex nature requires integration of advanced research data across national boundaries to enable progress. Indeed, the Horizon
Europe mission board for cancer has identified access to data, knowledge and digital services - accessible across the European Research
Area through federated infrastructures - as a key enabling condition for success. The better we organise cancer data across Europe, the
better and faster we can bring the fruits of new biological and technical innovations to the benefit of EU citizens/patients. EOSC4Cancer
will make cancer genomics, imaging, medical, clinical, environmental and socio-economics data accessible, using and enhancing existing
federated and interoperable systems for securely identifying, sharing, processing and reusing FAIR cancer data across borders, and it will
offer them via community-driven analysis environments. EOSC4Cancer provision of well curated datasets will be essential for advanced
analytics and computational methods to be reproducible and robust, including machine learning and artificial intelligence approaches.
EOSC4Cancer use-cases will cover the patient journey from cancer prevention to diagnosis to treatment, laying the foundation of data
trajectories and workflows for future cancer mission projects. EOSC4Cancer brings together a comprehensive consortium of cancer
research centres, research infrastructures, leading research groups, hospitals and supercomputing centres from 14 European countries. To
make the developments sustainable, these will be offered as part of the research infrastructures partners services portfolio, in connection
with the EOSC ecosystem and to serve the European Cancer Mission, which will be possible via the engagement with large international
coalitions, e.g. ICGC-Argo, GA4GH, 1+MG/B1MG, Cancer Core Europe, European Cancer Information System, European Network of
Cancer Registries, Innovative Partnership for Action Against Cancer Joint Action and patients/survivors associations.