Focus area 1: Norway will be a leading country in cancer prevention and early detection

• Facilitate that people born after 2010 are growing up to be tobacco-free and nicotine-free and offer help to give up smoking
• Eliminate cervical cancer and other cancers caused by HPV
• Offer more precise screening programmes with high uptake with the aim of introducing screening programmes for lung cancer and prostate cancer, among others
• Cancer is to be diagnosed at an earlier stage than today for cancers where this has a bearing on the prognosis
• Reduction of work-related cancer through strengthening of systematic HSE work

Focus area 2: Norway will be a leading country in providing good patient pathways

• All cancer patients should have access to a comprehensive cancer centre or a cancer centre
• All cancer patients will be included in the Cancer pathway – home

Focus area 3: More user- centred cancer care

• All cancer patients who want it and their next of kin will be offered an individual digital overview of the patient pathway and digital follow-up at home
• Cancer patients will have access to tools for participation and shared decision-making, and data from these tools will be used to improve the service provided
• Change from calendar-based check-ups to check-ups as needed in cases where this is safe and in the best interests of the patient

Focus area 4: More people will survive and live longer with and after cancer

• All patients will get the right treatment and follow-up at the right time by means of good prehabilitation and good prioritisation
• If relevant for the choice of treatment, all cancer patients will be offered genetic testing as part of the development towards making Norway a leading country in the field of precision medicine
• A health catapult initiative will be established
• Norwegian cancer research will be world-leading
• The number of cancer patients taking part in clinical trials will be doubled

Focus area 5: The best possible quality of life for cancer patients and their next of kin

• All cancer patients who so wish will be able to combine their treatment with work or education
• Comprehensive support for next of kin will be provided as part of cancer care