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Haere mai to the 2026 World Indigenous Cancer Conference!

On Thursday 11 December 2025, we published The State of Cancer in New Zealand 2025, providing an updated snapshot of progress in cancer control over the last 5 years. The report shows New Zealand continues to make encouraging progress in key areas of prevention, early detection and treatment.

Analysis on the variations in detecting, diagnosing and treating lung cancer across Aotearoa New Zealand.

National framework to help design equitable, person and whānau-centred cancer services across Aotearoa New Zealand.

Highlighting the variations in detecting, diagnosing and treating breast cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Te Aho o Te Kahu Cancer Control Agency is partnering with Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora to improve access to quality cancer services, designed around the needs of all people and whānau in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Te Aho o Te Kahu | Cancer Control Agency today thanks outgoing Director-General of Health Dr. Diana Sarfati, for her leadership and commitment to improving New Zealand’s health outcomes.

As part of our monitoring and Quality Improvement Programme we released a report on the number of people diagnosed with cancer within 30-days of an emergency or acute (unplanned) hospital admission by districts around the motu (country). Read the results of this analysis and learn about the many factors behind why a person may be diagnosed with cancer after an emergency admission to hospital.

Read the analysis on the differences between blood cancer medicines that are publicly funded in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. This complements the report Understanding the Gap: an analysis of the availability of cancer medicines in Aotearoa we released in 2022.