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On our way back from the #EUnetCCC on-site workshop on Shared Decision-Making, hosted by our wonderful colleagues Manal Iraki and Eva Sandberg at Lillebælt Hospital in Vejle, Denmark. With this workshop, we brought together partners from the thematic activity on patient-centeredness within WP6 of the EUnetCCC - European Network of Comprehensive Cancer Centres project. Together, we exchanged knowledge and practical experiences on how Shared Decision-Making can be implemented in cancer care. We also had the privilege of hearing several inspiring contributions: Thank you to Torben Hansen for demonstrating what Shared Decision-Making looks like when it is truly lived in clinical practice; to Karina Olling for sharing her research findings and practical decision aids for patients; to Sarah Auener for broadening our perspective on how the Danish Cancer Society involves patients, and to Mona Muusmann Petersen for sharing her personal story as a cancer patient and reflecting on what Shared Decision-Making meant to her along her individual journey. Besides these inspiring talks, we discussed benefits and barriers to shared decision-making; learning - based on evidence and shared practical experiences - that common concerns like “that takes too much time and increases costs” does not hold up in practice. Also, we discussed how our patient-centeredness working group could support Comprehensive Cancer Centres and Comprehensive Cancer Care Networks on their journey to implementing shared-decision making. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this insightful workshop. We are leaving Vejle with many valuable impressions, an amazing team spirit, and many ideas in our backpacks. Madita Schädlich Peggy Richter Emily Hickmann Ellen Griesshammer Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft e. V. (DKG) Dorota Dudek Technische Universität Dresden Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, TU Dresden Wirtschaftsinformatik | TU Dresden Sygehus Lillebælt #SharedDecisionMaking #PatientCenteredCare #CancerCare #EUnetCCC #EuropeanCancerCentres #PatientCenteredness #PatientCare #PatientConsultation #WithPatients