the next decade in healthcare will look nothing like the last- oncology is experiencing a tidal wave of therapies and technologies that continues to profoundly change the way cancer is diagnosed, treated, and monitored. the arrival of novel and disruptive technologies, precision medicine and emerging technologies, will drive oncology onward and the decisions taken today will have an impact on the landscape over the next decade. industry, regulators, HTA, pricing agencies, health care professionals, researchers and patient advocates must work together to address these challenges and create solutions to overcome these clinical, regulatory, reimbursement and policy hurdles.

as innovations continue to profoundly change the way cancer care is organized and delivered across canada, and globally our goal is to start thinking about these unique challenges now, proactively, so we are better prepared to respond, embrace and implement further disruptive innovations as they continue to make their way in the cancer ecosystem.