All cancer care should be provided through four managed cancer control networks, each serving a population of about one million people.
Each network to be headed by a director of cancer control.
Within each network, access to comprehensive palliative care and support services should be provided to patients and their families.
Eight centres, each serving a minimum population of 500,000 people, should be designated by the HSE as soon as possible to provide cancer care. These should be licensed.
Patients should have their diagnosis established and their treatment planned by site-specific multidisciplinary teams.
Breast screening should be extended to include all women aged between 50 and 69.
A cervical screening programme should be rolled out nationally as quickly as possible.
There is insufficient evidence to recommend the introduction of a prostate cancer screening programme at present.
Regulation of sunbed use, including restriction of use to adults only, should be put in place.
Excise duty on cigarettes should be substantially increased each year.