MASCC Strategic Plan
Consensus on the Core Ideology for MASCC

Core Purpose:
To promote optimal supportive care for people experiencing cancer worldwide.

Definition of Supportive Care:
Supportive Care is: The prevention and management of the adverse effects of cancer and its treatment. This includes physical and psychosocial symptoms and side effects across the entire continuum of the cancer experience including the enhancement of rehabilitation and survivorship.

MASCC Core Values:
- Quality
- Ethics/integrity
- Implementation
- Multidisciplinary
- Evidence based through research
- Maximize quality of life
- Education
- Multiple constituencies
- Communication and access
- Advocacy
- Independence
- Respect for cultural diversity

Goal Areas:

- Education of MASCC Members and Other Professionals and Influence of MASCC in Healthcare

- Visibility and Communication with Members

- Ensure Financial Resources to Pursue Goals

- Research: to Enhance Evidence-based Knowledge of Supportive Care in Cancer's specific areas defined by members through study sections

- Effective Organizational Structure