Abstract :
The National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (NCCCP) is a governmental responsibility which is
urged by UN agencies such as World Health Organization. The definition of this programme may be
different for each country and policy makers. There are some criteria as the principles for NCCCP such
as: equity, relativeness, integration, comprehension, effectiveness with appropriate technology. Equity
not only means the diagnostic or therapeutic activities to cover all people across the country, but also
means the priority setting in such activities which may even remove some activity for cancer patients
related to effectiveness, relativeness, cost beneficence, burden of disease, economical status, health
sharing from GDP, appropriate technology, community participation (for example out of pocket), and
many other factors. The NCCCP will be different issue in different part of the world and it would be completed by
integrating the health promotion program, prevention, and appropriate treatment plan based on
approved scientific method and also palliative care program which is one of the most important
components of NCCCP. It should have a comprehensive point of view about the biological, psycho‐ social
and spiritual aspects of cancer patients and also care givers in local community and country. Cancer
affects not only the patients but also their caregivers, families, managers, and policy makers. So it is a
necessary component of NCCCP as a comprehensive point of view.
The NCCCP needs some infrastructure information and data such as Cancer Registry System from A to
Z which is responsible for gathering data including incidence, prevalence, burden, morbidity and
mortality rate, demographic and geographic data, as well as the main feature of cancer in the country,
ethnicity distribution, clinico‐pathologic pattern, and identification of site and stage.
