Our vision is for Washington State is to be a place where individuals will not get preventable cancer and those with detectable cancers are diagnosed in the earliest stage of the disease and are given state-of-the-art care to assure their survival and quality of life. We envision a Washington where individuals in the end stages of incurable cancers are cared for in a way that maximizes the quality of their life and death, and full support is given to research directed toward understanding the causes of cancers and improving prevention, early detection, treatment, and palliation.