We advocate for quality cancer care for all people touched by cancer. Our unique niche in the cancer advocacy landscape is promoting policy change to ensure quality cancer care.

Ensuring quality cancer care is complex, and there are many areas for improvement and policy action. An important gap is in treatment decision-making and coordination of the multiple facets of cancer care. To address this gap, we have set a primary goal to ensure that every cancer patient has access to cancer care planning and coordination services. These services provide cancer patients information to make informed decisions about treatments; encourage collaboration among the multi-disciplinary cancer care providers; and facilitate transitions from active treatment to survivorship. Cancer care planning and coordination services are a critical first step toward reform of the cancer care delivery and payment system.

With the rapidly changing health care system, there has never been a better time to effect policy change, and NCCS pursues legislative, regulatory, and private payer solutions to achieve our goals. We educate patients and physicians to facilitate shared decision-making and increase the adoption of cancer care planning. We convene thought leaders, policymakers, advocates, and the private sector biannually at the NCCS Cancer Policy Roundtable to exchange ideas about the most pressing policy issues, and we move these ideas into action.