Our Aims
Our aims can be summarised under three headings.
Improving the Understanding of Cancer and its Treatment Throughout Scotland

To many the word "cancer" still implies incurable disease, and it is widely believed that little can be done to prevent it. This is no longer the case, and one of our central missions is to provide information about how cancer can be prevented, detected early and treated effectively. To this end, we have links on our website to finding out more about cancer and how it can be prevented.
Promoting the Prevention of Cancer in Scotland

In addition to providing information about how to avoid cancer, the Scottish Cancer Foundation provided support to the Scottish Cancer Prevention Network for 15 years. The Foundation remains committed to to keeping the general public informed on cancer risk reduction
Nurturing Collaborative Research Across Scotland

Scotland has some of the finest cancer researchers in the world, but they tend to work in relative isolation. The Scottish Cancer Foundation believes that by facilitating interactions between the strong cancer research groups in Scotland, we can move forward more rapidly and effectively, to develop interventions that can prevent or more effectively treat cancer.