Mission
The UICC mission is to build and lead the global cancer control community engaged in:
- Sharing and exchanging knowledge and competence
-Transferring scientific findings to clinical, patient and public settings - Systematically reducing and eliminating disparities in prevention, early detection and treatment
- Delivering the best possible care to people living with cancer throughout the world
Under the leadership of Isabel Mortara, executive director of UICC, the Secretariat focuses on four strategic directions:
- Cancer prevention and control
- Tobacco control
- Knowledge transfer
- Capacity building and supportive care
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Famous quotes containing the word mission:
“Every Age has its own peculiar faith.... Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.”
—Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872)
“... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal “the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry].” He said he didn’t know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate’s coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)