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Publication - Strategy/plan

Cancer strategy 2023 to 2033

Published
15 June 2023
Directorate
Healthcare Quality and Improvement Directorate
Part of
Health and social care
ISBN
9781805255444

This Cancer strategy for Scotland sets out our vision for the next ten years to improve cancer survival and provide excellent, equitably accessible care. It was developed in collaboration with people with lived experience and our wider partners.

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Footnotes

1 Public Health Scotland (2021) Cancer Mortality in Scotland: Annual Update to 2020

2 Public Health Scotland (2021) Cancer Mortality 2019

3 The Scottish Government (2016) Person-centred care: guidance for nonexecutive directors. rep.

4 Learning Systems (2020) Ihub. Healthcare Improvement Scotland

5 Nolte, E. et al. (2022) “Exploring the link between cancer policies and cancer survival: A comparison of international cancer benchmarking partnership countries,” The Lancet Oncology, 23(11)

6 Cytosponge (2023) NHS Inform. NHS Scotland.

7 Figure adapted from: Balasubramanian, Dharani K., Jamillah Z. Khan, J. Bian, Yi Guo, William R. Hogan and Amanda Hicks. “Ontology of Cancer Related Social- Ecological Variables.” International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (2017).

8 Figure adapted from: Public Health Scotland (2023) Cancer Incidence in Scotland to December 2021

9 Figure adapted from: Public Health Scotland (2022) Cancer Incidence in Scotland To December 2020

10 Figure adapted from: Public Health Scotland (2022) Cancer survival statistics People diagnosed with cancer during 2015 to 2019. rep. Public Health Scotland.

11 Figure adapted from: Public Health Scotland (2022) Cancer Mortality: Annual Update to 2021

12 Cancer Research (2023) Cancer in the UK Scotland Overview. rep.

13 Cancer Risk Statistics (no date) Cancer Research UK.

14 Brown, K.F. et al. (2018) “The fraction of cancer attributable to modifiable risk factors in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the United Kingdom in 2015,” British Journal of Cancer, 118(8), pp. 1130–1141.

15 ibid

16 Patel, A.L.P.A.V. et al. (2019) “American College of Sports Medicine Roundtable Report on physical activity, sedentary behavior, and cancer prevention and Control,” Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 51(11), pp. 2391– 2402.

17 Tod, E et al (2018) Hospital admissions, deaths and overall burden of disease attributable to alcohol consumption in Scotland. Scottish Public Health Observatory rep.

18 Public Health Scotland (2021) Cancer incidence in Scotland: Cancer Incidence and Prevalence in Scotland to December 2019

19 Skin cancer (melanoma) symptoms and treatments (2023) NHS inform.

20 Falcaro, M. et al. (2021) “The effects of the national HPV vaccination programme in England, UK, on cervical cancer and grade 3 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia incidence: A register-based observational study,” The Lancet, 398(10316), pp. 2084–2092.

21 Matson, L. (2021) “‘The power of science’: HPV vaccine proven to dramatically reduce cervical cancer,” Cancer Research UK.

22 Public Health Scotland (2023) Cancer Waiting Times: 1 October to 31 December 2022

23 Baskar, R. et al. (2012) “Cancer and radiation therapy: Current advances and Future Directions,” International Journal of Medical Sciences, 9(3), pp. 193– 199.

24 COVID-19 Wider Impacts on the Health Care System (no date) Public Health Scotland.

25 Public Health Scotland. (2021) What are Health Inequalities?

26 Cancer Research UK (2022) ‘Cancer in the UK: Deprivation and cancer inequalities in Scotland’.

27 NHS Scotland (2013) Health Inequalities Policy Review for the Scottish Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequalities

28 The Scottish Government (2022) Psychological therapies and support framework for people affected by cancer. rep.

29 Gilmour, R. (2022) “NHS Scotland gets £10m backing for use of drones,” Public Technology, 12 September.

30 Alma Economics and The Scottish Government (2022) Cancer Strategy. The Scottish Government.

Contact

Email: cancerpolicyteam@gov.scot

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