China’s cancer prevention and treatment three-year action plan (2015-2017)

Source: en.nhfpc.gov.cn

Updated: 2015-09-15

e) industry and information technology departments will strengthen the coordination of smoking control, and boost generic antitumor drug development and industrial production;

f) civil affairs departments will improve the medical assistance policy for cancer patients and families in need;

g) financial departments will arrange special funding and strengthen fund management and supervision;

h) human resources and social security and health and family planning departments will improve the medical insurance policy to ensure benefits for cancer patients and other insured people;

i) environmental protection departments will strengthen environmental monitoring and pollution control, and give priority to treatment of environment pollution that impairs public health;

j) agricultural departments will guide agricultural industry structural adjustment and agricultural product quality improvement;

k) departments of press, publication, radio and television will arrange for major media to publicize cancer prevention and increase public knowledge;

l) sports authorities will promote national fitness campaigns, and enhance scientific guidance of mass sports activities;

m) safety supervision departments will supervise companies in identifying hazardous factors leading to occupational cancer occurences, and strengthen supervision and inspection of relevant work places and personal protection;

n) food and drug supervision departments will strengthen supervision of antitumor drugs production and circulation, and speed up review and approval of production and innovation of generic drugs whose patent is about to expire;

o) intellectual property departments will be responsible for anti-tumor drug patent examination, approval and protection;

p) traditional Chinese medicine management departments will guide medical institutions in carrying out cancer prevention and treatment by using traditional Chinese medicine, and promote relevant technology and skills.

2. Strengthen system construction and improve service capacity. Speed up development of the national cancer center's capacity, establish a national cancer prevention and control cooperation network, and strengthen the capacity of various disease prevention and control institutes for monitoring and intervention, epidemiological investigation, and information management regarding cancer risk factors.

3. Strengthen tumor information collection work. Improve the cancer registration and report system, and utilize the Cancer Registration Management Method.

4. Promote comprehensive prevention and control of cancer risk factors. Actively advance the tobacco control legislation process, and publicize harm arising from smoking and secondhand smoke. Strengthen hepatitis B vaccination work, and implement the neonatal hepatitis B vaccination program. Actively boost human papilloma virus vaccine research and development. Strengthen environmental protection. Strengthen occupational tumor standards formulation and revision, and reduce occupational exposure to carcinogens and ionizing radiation.