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The Australian Government's national cancer control agency, set up in 2006, which wrote the ten-year Australian Cancer Plan and coordinates the national Optimal Care Pathways.
Cancer Australia was established by the Australian Government in 2006 and describes itself as the national cancer control agency, leading and coordinating evidence-based action and making recommendations to government on cancer policy and priorities; it marks its twentieth anniversary in 2026. It developed the ten-year Australian Cancer Plan, a national strategy written after consultation with people affected by cancer, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, clinicians, researchers and policy makers, with a stated focus on the groups whose outcomes are poorer. Its chief executive is Professor Dorothy Keefe.
Two pieces of national machinery run through it. The Optimal Care Pathways, hosted by Cancer Council Australia with proposals for new pathways sent to Cancer Australia, set out what good care looks like at each step from prevention and early detection to survivorship or end-of-life care, for each cancer type, so that the standard does not depend on where a person lives. It also did the enquiry and feasibility work behind the National Lung Cancer Screening Program, which the health department cites as the evidence base for the program's screening pathway.
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