Global health leaders call for a World Health Assembly cancer resolution in 2017

Over 250 global cancer and health leaders gathered at the World Cancer Leaders’ Summit (WCLS) to call for a comprehensive and robust World Health Assembly (WHA) cancer resolution in 2017. This is a response to countries urgently seeking guidance on the set-up of quality national cancer control programmes to help meet the World Health Organization’s target of a 25% reduction in premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by 2025. The need for, and purpose of, this new resolution has been driven by a new report, which identifies the major cancer control challenges that must be immediately addressed. The World Cancer