The Organisation
Our Values and Principles
Campaigning for Cancer, will at all times, advocate the following values and principles:
- Development of an effective and efficient means of involving relevant stakeholders in the form of input, decision making and assuming responsibility, resulting in the acceptance of ownership for the processes and results thereof.
- All people in South Africa are entitled to knowledge and appropriate information in their mother tongue regarding cancer, risk factors, and how cancer may best be prevented, identified and treated.
- All patients are entitled to the provision of equitable and accessible services that will address the needs of patients, on physical, social, emotional and spiritual levels.
- All patients are entitled to have access to the best available clinically appropriate treatment, based on accurate diagnosis, stage of disease and current evidence-based medicine, in a suitably equipped facility within a reasonable time frame.
- All patients are entitled to the best available and reasonable form of palliative relief from pain and suffering.
- All patients are entitled to a progressive and reasonable national effort to devote resources to support them from diagnosis, through treatment, to palliation.
- All patients are entitled to a work environment free from discrimination and for reasonable accommodation of their disability in the workplace
- All patients are entitled to have their dignity and wishes respected.
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