2016 was an important year for cancer control in China. This report presents the progress and achievements in cancer prevention including environment management,smoking control, obesity prevention, health insurance of serious illness, annual check-up; the major achievements in the treatment of lung cancer, leukemia, breast cancer, gistrointestinal cancer and nasopharrengeal cancer; as well as developments of new anticancer agents, immune treatment and construction of translational research platforms. The perspective of cancer prevention and treatment in the near future is also briefly discussed.

cancer control  /  annual check-up  /  new anticancer agents  /  immune treatment