CancerWatch was set up to enable people whose lives have been affected by cancer to campaign for improved public health policy. We are passionate about eliminating preventable cancers and believe that government legislation and public health policy are key instruments for achieving this. We believe it is the responsibility of public policy makers to provide an environment that reduces the incidence of cancer and keeps us safe from cancer and other dread diseases.
Personal responsibility is important in the battle to prevent cancer, but is not sufficient to protect the population from this disease, and responsibility for a healthier society lies on the shoulders of policy makers and the health environment that they create.
We believe that by creating a healthier society that is more enlightened about the prevention of disease, we can create a world that keeps us free from illness and despair. However, that cannot come about unless we develop the environment to make this to happen. CancerWatch campaigns for the creation of such a society.