However, the German Insurance Association (GDV), an industry group, warned against setting fixed time limits on cancer patient status. Susanne Weg-Remers, of the German Cancer Research Centre in the western city of Heidelberg, said that while some cancer survivors did develop tumours in other organs, the risk was not significantly higher than in the general population. Patient advocacy groups say automatic presumptions about future health are particularly unfair to younger survivors, whose prognoses are often good. The European Society for Medical Oncology, which provides cancer information and education, has advocated for a fair common standard for financial services access for cancer survivors across Europe based on a five-year minimum remission period. Only 11 EU member states had introduced specific legal measures protecting cancer survivors from financial discrimination, it said, leaving 16 without equivalent protections.