The Brazilian National Cancer Institute - INCA is an organ of the Ministry of Health with a federal mandate to lead a country-wide policy for cancer control in Brazil.. This leadership role occurs through the design, implementation and operation of effective and equitable programs focussing:

 Prevention
 Diagonosis
 Treatment
 Supportive and Palliative Care
 Education and Research
 Cancer Registries

INCA faces the challenge to reduce cancer incidence and mortality throughout the country by implementing a comprehensive National Cancer Control Program according to its mission and strategic vision.

The guiding principles of the Brazilian National Cancer Institute are:

1. Fully client satisfaction - to strive for excellence by providing cancer services to fully meet the demands of the internal and external public.
2. Participative management - to develop a clear understanding of participation and responsibility for the tasks and day-to-day operations among our staff members within the Institute through effective information dissemination.
3. Human resources development - to put valuation on our human resources encouraging their enhancement and their fully satisfaction.
4. Stability on the objectives - to repete and reinforce the institutional goals that guide us in an ever-changing environment, regarding actions that converge to the same point and the alignement of ideas.
5. Continuous search for excellence - to implement an understanding of ever-changing mentality committed to continuous training.
6. Operations management - to apply PDCA: to plan, to do, to check and to act.
7. Responsibilities delegation - to devolve responsibilities and authority to appropriate decisionmakers.
8. Information dissemination - to provide and keep information channels meeting targets as agility, selectivity and integrity, to ensure transparency of our organization.
9. Garantee of high quality - to plan and develop sistematically actions, in order to achieve patients'and their loved ones'confidence to our services.
10. Search for excellence - to incorporate the principle of excellence, in such a way that our targetted performance patterns shall be with no error.