Commit to Beat Cancer frequently asked questions

Over the last six months our supporters have been asking their Parliamentary Candidates to sign up to Commit to Beat Cancer. We have had a fantastic response to this with over 850 Candidates signing up.

As a part of the commitment to help make the UK’s cancer outcomes among the best in Europe in the next 10 years, we asked Candidates to support concerted Government action in the following key areas:

• Detecting cancer earlier
• Providing world class treatment
• Preventing more cancers
• Tackling cancer inequalities
• Protecting the UK’s research base

The strong support we received for these commitments should help cancer to remain a high priority for the new government. But our work is far from done as in the coming months and years we work to ensure that this commitment is respected and acted upon.

So keep checking back with our <a>Commit to Beat Cancer </a> campaign page for new actions in the coming weeks as we develop a plan to make these pledges a reality.

We asked them to sign up to a commitment that contains our five campaign goals. If they made this commitment we know that if they are elected we can call on them to help us beat cancer in the future.

By doing this we hope to raise awareness of Cancer Research UK and build support for our vision that together we will beat cancer. This will help us to reach our ambitious goal of making the UK’s cancer outcomes among the best in Europe in the next ten years.

In the next few weeks, as the new MPs settle in, there are no direct actions to take. However as soon as they take up their new posts and start work we will post new actions to ensure that these promises are delivered.

Absolutely, each MP has a duty to listen to their constituent’s concerns, by getting involved and contacting your MP you will help us to show that there is widespread support for keeping cancer on the agenda in the future and through this we will be able to keep achieving the fantastic campaign successes we’ve had in the past. Every MP matters.

In the coming weeks and months we will need your help to ensure that politicians fulfil their promises and keep cancer as a high priority throughout Government.