The Welsh Government will develop a 10-year cancer strategy to transform the way the health service prevents, diagnoses and treats the disease.

Cancer is currently the biggest killer in Wales and one in two people will be affected by it in their lifetime.

The Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, Mabon ap Gwynfor, said that a lack of national direction and strategic ambition has compromised the fight against cancer for too long.

The strategy will set out an ambitious vision for cancer care in Wales, based on proactively addressing the preventative causes of cancer, boosting rates of early diagnosis and developing optimal pathways of care for all types of cancer.

Wales will work with the European Cancer Organisation and other international partners to draw on the best international evidence and innovation.

The strategy will be published to coincide with World Cancer Day on 4 February 2027.

Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, Mabon ap Gwynfor said: "For patients waiting too long for diagnosis, for families in rural communities who face greater barriers to care, and for the clinicians working hard to deliver world-class treatment with insufficient national coordination, this strategy matters.

"Wales has not introduced a national cancer strategy since 2006. In the two decades since, treatments have transformed, diagnostic technology has advanced, the needs of our population have changed, and our understanding of cancer has deepened dramatically.

"This Welsh Government is moving at pace, and it is moving with purpose on this priority of national importance. Every person in Wales deserves the best possible chance against cancer. This strategy will deliver it."