National Cancer Plan

Objectives

The National Cancer Plan provides a national framework for collaboration to end cancer as it is known today, aligned with the Cancer Moonshot vision.[1]Its overarching aims are to prevent cancer, reduce cancer deaths and secure the best possible quality of life for people living with cancer.[1]

• Set eight goals to guide collective action against cancer.[1]
• Support each goal through strategies that encompass essential research and other relevant activities.[1]
• Mobilise organisations and individuals to contribute to the plan’s goals.[1]
• Address cancer through a broad framework rather than a single-sector or single-institution response.[1]

The source identifies the plan’s high-level goals and strategic orientation, but does not specify the individual eight goals, detailed objectives, priority populations, timelines, targets or disease-specific areas of action.[1]

Implementation

The plan adopts a whole-system implementation approach, bringing together public institutions, the research and care community, people affected by cancer, advocates and private-sector actors.[1]The National Cancer Institute is positioned to collaborate across government and beyond, while the plan is intended to develop as research and shared learning progress.[1]

• Coordinate action among the federal government, state and local governments, researchers, people with cancer, caregivers, advocates, private investors and the wider cancer community.[1]
• Engage the National Cancer Institute in cross-government and wider collaboration.[1]
• Invite cancer research and care organisations to share actions that advance the plan’s goals.[1]
• Adapt the plan as research advances and lessons emerge from the cancer care community.[1]
• Monitor progress towards the plan’s goals through the President’s Cancer Panel.[1]

The source does not specify delivery structures below this collaborative model, lead responsibilities for individual goals, governance arrangements, implementation phases, performance indicators, reporting schedules, budgets or funding allocations.[1]

Monitoring & Evaluation

The President’s Cancer Panel monitors progress towards the National Cancer Plan’s goals.[1]Indicators, reporting schedules, evaluation methods and surveillance arrangements are not specified beyond this monitoring role.[1]

Costing & Financing

Progress against cancer is associated with investment by federal, state and local governments, alongside private investment and sustained contributions from researchers, people with cancer, caregivers and advocates.[1]

• Support collaboration across public, private and community contributors to advance the plan’s goals.[1]
• Specify no budget, quantified allocation, funding gap, economic assumption or resource-mobilisation target.[1]