National Cancer Policy

Objectives

The policy sets out a cancer-control strategic framework comprising a vision, mission, goal, objectives and guiding principles.[1]Its intervention areas span the cancer continuum, from prevention and early detection through treatment, palliative care, surveillance, research, and monitoring and evaluation.[1]

• Strengthen primary prevention as a core area of cancer control.[1]
• Improve early detection and surveillance.[1]
• Support diagnosis, treatment, pain management and palliative care.[1]
• Develop cancer surveillance, research, monitoring and evaluation.[1]
• Address programme-specific priorities for cervical, breast, liver, childhood, leukaemia and prostate cancers.[2]

The available material identifies these strategic areas but does not provide the detailed wording of the vision, mission, goal, objectives or guiding principles.[1]

Implementation

Implementation is planned in three phases, covering years 1–3, years 4–5, and the period beyond year 5.[1]Delivery is intended to operate through a multi-stakeholder institutional framework involving national coordination, government, technical groups, health providers, communities and civil society.[1][2]

• Coordinate implementation through a National Cancer Control Committee and a designated coordinator.[1]
• Support delivery through the Ministry of Health and the National Cancer Control Strategy Secretariat.[1][2]
• Engage communities, civil society and health providers in implementation.[2]
• Use priority technical working groups to support programme delivery.[2]
• Incorporate a cancer registry and cancer surveillance and research within the institutional and programme framework.[1][2]
• Include monitoring and evaluation as an intervention area and institutional component.[1][2]

The available source material does not specify operational responsibilities by institution, service-delivery standards, referral arrangements, indicators, reporting processes, evaluation methods, accountability mechanisms, budgets, financing sources or resource mobilisation arrangements.[1][2]

Monitoring & Evaluation

Monitoring and evaluation, cancer surveillance and research, and a cancer registry are identified as components of the policy’s intervention and institutional framework.[1][2]The available source text does not specify indicators, targets, data-quality arrangements, reporting frequency, evaluation methods, surveillance procedures, responsible reporting bodies, or accountability mechanisms.[1][2]

• Include monitoring and evaluation among the policy’s key intervention areas.[1]
• Incorporate cancer surveillance, research and registry functions within the institutional framework.[1][2]

Costing & Financing

The available source text does not specify programme costs, budgets, financing sources, resource-mobilisation mechanisms, funding gaps, allocations, expenditure plans, or economic assumptions.[1][2]