A private, non-stock, non-profit corporation registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It was founded on December 22, 1956 by a group of laymen and medical doctors with the objective to advance knowledge about cancer, combat the spread of the disease, and bring relief to those afflicted with cancer.
In 1967, the Philippine Cancer Society was certified as a science foundation by the National Science Technology Authority (now the Department of Science and Technology.) In 2000, it received a certificate of accreditation from the Philippine Council for Non-Government Organizations Certification. In 2001, the Society was likewise accredited by the Department of Socieal Welfare and Development.
The Society is one of the pioneering organizations that launched significant projects and services in cancer prevention, control and management in the Philippines. It established the Central Tumor Registry, now known as the Philippine Cancer Society-Manila Cancer Registry, a population-based cancer registry that aid and gives direction in creating national policies on cancer. The Society also created a Hospice Care Program that performed pain and symptom control and counseling to indigent terminally ill cancer patients. It succeeded to inspire more than 30 hospital and community-based hospice groups to form their own hospice units.
To this day, the Society prides itself on its extensive cancer programs that focus on the following areas:
- Education and information: to create awareness of cancer prevention and control through film showings, lectures, conferences and similar activities as well as provide updates on cancer management to health professionals
- Service: to provide pain relief and psychosocial support for terminally-ill indigent cancer patients and their families, free breast, pelvic and prostate examinations through mobile clinics and consultations/referrals to patients needing further medical attention
- Research: to support cancer control programs through the collection and recording of facts and figures about cancer incidence and other data
Many individuals, doctors, groups and organizations also participate or partner in the Society’s activities. They make available much-needed resources—human, material or financial—to support the Society’s work.
The work of the Society has also received support from various international cancer organizations and agencies such as International Union Against Cancer, International Agency for Research in Cancer, American Cancer Society, International Stoma Care Advocacy Programme, Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network, UICC/Reach to Recovery International, International Association of Cancer Registries, and the Asian and Pacific Federation of Organizations for Cancer Research and Control.
Website: http://www.philcancer.com
Email Address: pcsi@pcsi.com.ph
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