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Everyone has a role

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Why Is a National Cancer Plan Needed?

People across the country and worldwide are counting on us to end cancer as we know it. Research alone will not accomplish this. To succeed, we must work together to develop strategies, share knowledge, and accelerate progress.

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Empowering Goals

An orange colored graphic with four icons depicting the empowering goals of the National Cancer Plan. Transparent arrows in the background symbolize the goals moving cancer care forward.

These goals focus on transforming how cancer research is conducted and cancer care is delivered, to accelerate progress toward achieving the health-centric goals.

Health-centric Goals

A green colored graphic with four icons depicting the health-centric goals of the National Cancer Plan. Transparent arrows in the background symbolize the goals moving cancer care forward.

Focused on directly improving health outcomes, these goals describe the progress that is needed across the spectrum of people's experiences with cancer.

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Learn what the cancer community is doing to achieve the eight goals of the National Cancer Plan.

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