NASEM issues strategic vision for controlling cancer

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) presents a strategic vision for integrating and coordinating national efforts to address cancer. The report recommends that the Department of Health and Human Services lead a federal effort to develop a National Cancer Control Plan and fund an independent organization or consortium to develop a public planning and monitoring tool to support the plan. To transform cancer control in the United States, the report urges the adoption of a systems engineering approach to tackling the disease. “The nation’s cancer control system will need to become much more effective, efficient, and accountable than it is today to successfully address the approaching wave of cancers in our aging society,” the report states. (AHA News story, 6/27/19)