Engeland's Nationaal Kankerplan: holle beloften?

On Feb 4, 2026—World Cancer Day—the long-overdue National Cancer Plan for England was finally published. The plan sets ambitious targets, promising that three quarters of all patients diagnosed with cancer will survive at least 5 years and that the UK will become a global leader in cancer survival by 2035. However, the feasibility of these ambitions is doubtful. The UK's current 5-year survival is among the lowest of all high-income countries, and internal reviews have presented the National Health Service (NHS) as broken.