Mission statement

Cancon aims to contribute in different ways to reducing the cancer burden in the EU. It will help raise cancer survival and reduce cancer mortality by 

• Improving the quality of cancer care among member states;
• Improving the quality of life of cancer patients and survivors with proposals on survivorship;
• Ensuring reintegration and palliative care and a decrease in inequalities at various levels of the cancer control field.

These key elements are combined with other relevant aspects of cancer control to create a European Guide on Quality Improvement in Comprehensive Cancer Control.

The Guide is now released. It is meant for

• governments,
• parliamentarians,
• health care providers and funders, and
• cancer care professionals at every level.

These groups are informed of the on-going work and, at the end, provided with the Guide in digital or printed form.

Cancon will help member states to place cancer firmly on their national public health agendas and improve national situations by applying and adapting recommendations in the Guide.