{"entity":{"id":"korea-cancer-control-act","kind":"term","name":"Cancer Control Act (Republic of Korea)","aka":["암관리법","Korean Cancer Control Act","Cancer Management Act (Korea)"],"tldr":"South Korea's national cancer law, passed in 2003, obliges the government to run cancer screening, a cancer registry, home care and survivorship programmes, to help poorer patients with treatment costs, and it is the legal basis of the National Cancer Center.","summary":"Republic of Korea, 암관리법 (Cancer Control Act). A 2008 review of Korean cancer control (Yoo, Jpn J Clin Oncol 2008) records that the act was legislated in 2003. The current text on the Korean National Law Information Center is Act No. 21262, partly amended on 30 December 2025 and in force from 31 March 2026, administered by the Ministry of Health and Welfare with the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency for article 16.\n\nWhat it requires, from the current text: the Minister of Health and Welfare draws up a comprehensive cancer control plan every five years after review by a National Cancer Control Committee (articles 5 to 8); runs a cancer research programme, which may be delegated to the National Cancer Center (article 9); must run a cancer screening programme, with the cancers, ages and intervals set by presidential decree in light of incidence, survival and mortality statistics, and may pay all or part of the cost for medical-aid recipients and some insured people (article 11); must run home care for cancer patients, including pain control and palliative care visits (article 12), and an integrated support programme for survivors' health and return to school and work (article 12-2); may fund treatment costs according to the patient's ability to pay (article 13); and must run a cancer registration and statistics programme producing screening, incidence, survival and mortality figures, drawing on hospitals, the National Health Insurance Service and the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (article 14). Article 27 establishes the National Cancer Center as a legal entity. Article 4 makes 21 March Cancer Prevention Day.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"National Law Information Center (law.go.kr): 암관리법, current text","url":"https://www.law.go.kr/%EB%B2%95%EB%A0%B9/%EC%95%94%EA%B4%80%EB%A6%AC%EB%B2%95"},{"label":"Yoo, Cancer control activities in the Republic of Korea, Jpn J Clin Oncol 2008 (PMID 18407932)","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jjco/hyn026"}],"tags":["law","kr"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":["cancer-registries-surveillance"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["ncc-korea","nhis-korea"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":["Read in Korean from law.go.kr on 4 November 2026; the summary is OnCo's English paraphrase, not an official translation.","The 2003 date rests on the 2008 review's abstract; the enactment entry in the law's history was not read."],"category":"Regulation & policy"},"route":"/terms/korea-cancer-control-act/","neighbours":{"technology":[{"id":"cancer-registries-surveillance","kind":"technology","name":"Cancer registries and population surveillance","route":"/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/"}],"institution":[{"id":"ncc-korea","kind":"institution","name":"National Cancer Center Korea","route":"/institutions/ncc-korea/"},{"id":"nhis-korea","kind":"institution","name":"National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), South Korea","route":"/institutions/nhis-korea/"}]}}