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First annual report on implementation of the Cancer Reform Strategy

Work is well underway to catch more cancer cases earlier and improve the longer term treatment for cancer survivors, National Cancer Director Professor Mike Richards said today.

The first annual report setting out the Government's progress against the Cancer Reform Strategy, 'Maintaining Momentum, Building for the Future', highlights the achievements made in the first year and identifies priorities for the year ahead.

The Cancer Reform Strategy (CRS) aims to work at both national and local levels to improve the quality of cancer services over a five-year period until 2012.

The highlights of the first year include:

• The launch of the National Awareness and Early Detection Initiative to pick up and treat cancer earlier
  The launch of the National Cancer Survivorship Initiative which aims to ensure that the 1.6 million cancer survivors in England receive the integrated, quality services they need
• The introduction of the HPV vaccine, which will protect women against the two strains of HPV which cause more than 70% of cervical cancer cases
• The successful further rollout of bowel cancer screening 2000 cancers have been detected since it began in 2006.
  

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