Global Focus on Cancer

Global Focus on Cancer’s mission is to raise awareness, provide support and create a global network between people diagnosed with cancer, their care partners and medical professionals. Our goal is to increase awareness, decrease stigma and encourage early detection and treatment by expanding access to information about cancer. What We Do GFC is a US based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed in 2011 to act as an agent of simple and effective change to help reduce the global burden of cancer. We achieve this by creating, implementing and sustaining cancer awareness and education programs, and promoting the development of locally sustainable cancer support groups in areas where access to information about cancer is critically lacking. Principles GFC’s programs put cancer patients and their care partners at the center to ensure that programs respond to patient needs. We use evidence for program development and implementation, and generates knowledge and data for adapting programs to other settings. Programs are implemented and driven by local partners, fit into national strategies, and are embedded in the health care system. GFC has a universal vision of a future in which all people have access to health services which are: -Coordinated around their needs -Respects their preferences -Safe, timely, affordable and of acceptable quality