Cancer affects 8,602 new people in Northern Ireland every year and accounts for 3,584 deaths each year. The Ulster Cancer Foundation believes that cancer patients and their families have a right to the very best cancer diagnosis, cancer treatment and care facilities.

With the re-birth of local Government in 1999, and the establishment of the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Ulster Cancer Foundation has taken the lead in briefing national and local politicians about cancer. Our specialty is to bring together patients, professionals and politicians to both inform and to influence change in the delivery of local cancer services.

The UCF is responsible for the following:

• The Patient Action Group (a cross section of cancer patients who are
  working in the media and at Government level to improve cancer services)
• The Cancer Clinicians Forum (leading cancer clinicians discussion forum)
• The All Party Special Interest Group on Cancer (a group of local politicians
  from all Northern Ireland parties who are concerned about cancer).
  (Co-Chairs: Mrs. Eileen Bell, MLA and Mrs. Iris Robinson, MP.,MLA).