Inherited Cancers Network Asia (ICaN Asia)
ICaN Asia was established in 2025 with the goal of improving health outcomes for individuals with hereditary cancers across the Asia-Pacific region. Its efforts focus on the following objectives:
1. Empower
Strengthen patients, families, and clinicians by improving access to knowledge, resources, and support systems that enable informed decision-making and better life outcomes.
2. Educate
Deliver high-quality educational programs — including webinars, symposia, and regional forums — to raise awareness, enhance professional knowledge, and advance standards of care in hereditary cancers.
3. Engage
Build a strong, multi-stakeholder regional network across Southeast Asia to foster collaboration among clinicians, researchers, patients, and policymakers, while establishing prospective cohorts to support future research and trials.
4. Enable
Develop a real-time regional data registry and centralized cancer cohort repository, analyze patient management pathways to identify care gaps, and expand access to clinical trials across the region.
5. Elevate
Generate high-quality regional data and collaborative research to inform policy, influence funding priorities, and elevate standards of hereditary cancer care across Asia-Pacific.