Basque Country Comprehensive Cancer Plan 2025-2030
Cancer is one of the main causes of illness and mortality in the Basque Country. In 2023, it was responsible for 28% of deaths, making it the leading cause of death among men (33.8%) and the second among women (22.3%).
The Basque Country Comprehensive Cancer Plan 2025–2030 (BCCP) is the Basque health system’s strategy to address this major public health challenge. It is conceived as a comprehensive, innovative, and people-centered plan.
Main objectives
- Improve the survival rate of people with cancer.
- Reduce the potential years of life lost due to cancer.
- Improve the quality of life of patients, their families and carers.
- Guarantee equity in access to prevention, diagnosis, and treatments.
- Advance towards a more humane, efficient, and sustainable care model.
Mission and vision
Mission
Establish a comprehensive, participatory, sustainable and dynamic strategy to guide cancer actions based on excellence, scientific evidence and equity, generating value for Basque citizens in terms of better health outcomes.
Vision 2030
- Improve the survival rate of people with cancer.
- Reduce the potential years of life lost due to cancer.
- Improve the quality of life of people, cancer patients and survivors, their families and carers.
- Maintain and enhance the commitment to equity.
- Improve the public’s perception of how the Basque Health System addresses cancer.
Guiding principles
- People-centredness and humanisation.
- Prevention and early detection.
- Comprehensive care and continuity of care.
- Organisation, coordination and networking.
- Quality, innovation and evidence-based decision-making.
- Leadership and governance.
Priority Areas for Action 7 areas · 35 objectives · 142 actions
- People, the core of the BCCP
- Healthcare model
- Health promotion and cancer prevention
- Early detection
- Comprehensive care
- Health outcomes, registration, reporting and surveillance systems
- Research and innovation
Strategic framework
- Cancer Mission and Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan.
- Cancer Strategy of the Spanish National Health System.
- Basque Country Health Plan 2030 and Osakidetza Strategic Plan 2023-2025.
- Other cross-cutting plans regarding palliative care, mental health, humanization, patient safety, and social determinants of health.
Broad participation
The development process of the BCCP has involved more than 190 professionals, patients, associations, and social agents. This broad involvement ensures a strategy with a technical foundation, social legitimacy and transformative capacity.
With this strategy, the Basque Country comprehensively addresses the challenges of cancer through 2030, strengthening prevention, equity, and quality of care with an innovative, people-centred model.
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