Convening:
Connecting the minds and voices of the global cancer community

• Raising awareness and catalysing personal, collective and government action through World Cancer Day
   
• Uniting cancer professionals and policy makers in premier events like the World Cancer Congress and World Cancer Leaders’ Summit
   
• Supporting collaboration through a growing network of members and partners

Capacity building:
Increasing the impact of the cancer community

• Accelerating learning through training, expert guidance and peer-to-peer connections

• Developing and empowering leaders to sustain and advance cancer control for the future

• Providing resources and investing to support national-level initiatives

• Building a powerful portfolio of offline and online resources to expand knowledge

Advocacy:
Bringing cancer to the attention of global leaders

• Engaging United Nations agencies, UICC members, civil society and other stakeholders to achieve the implementation of global cancer and non-communicable disease (NCD) commitments

• Keeping members’ perspectives at the forefront of global health discussions, strategies and events

• Ensuring that all countries develop and implement a national cancer control plan and that national health investments in cancer control and other NCDs increase over time

• Ensuring that national health expenditures invested in cancer control and other NCDs increase, and that countries least able to address their cancer burden have a larger proportion of official development assistance earmarked.