What are the health needs and challenges?

The fight against cancer is far from over. Significant progress has been made, but progress is not fast enough and does not reach every patient.

This progress is sometimes discounted because it has generally occurred in small steps. Science, medicine and industry have moved forward against cancer not by discovering outright cures in most cases, but by building on existing knowledge and treatments in a series of innovative steps – what is called “continuous innovation.” New treatments or treatment combinations that extend patients’ average survival by a few months are an example of continuous innovation. Over time, this pattern has led to much better outcomes for patients.

Partnership activities and how they address needs and challenges

PACE is a collaboration across international borders and among diverse stakeholders-including industry, academia, payers, and patient groups. PACE acts as a network of networks: to create wider awareness of what is being done to speed innovations to the patients who need them, to help coordinate existing work, and to avoid duplication of effort and waste of resources.

The purpose of the Council is to:

• Provide a forum for intellectual exchange and for linkage between existing initiatives led by its members.
• Recommend actions consistent with the goals of PACE to devise or encourage policy reforms.
• Improve public awareness on cancer-related issues.

PACE and the participants in the PACE Global Council are mutually independent but come together voluntarily under the shared goal of speeding cancer innovations to the patients who need them.