Delivering Impact,
Defining Our Next Chapter

2025 was a defining year for Singapore Cancer Society (SCS). We concluded our FY2023–2025 strategy and delivered tangible impact. At the same time, we developed the SCS Strategic Plan 2030, our five-year roadmap for the next phase of our mission.

Shaped by deep engagement with staff, partners, clients, and national stakeholders, the plan clarifies SCS’s role across our strategic thrusts: cancer prevention and control, cancer care and support, rallying the community and strengthening our core. Alongside expanding screening access, improving community-based care, and mobilising collective action, the SCS Strategic Plan 2030 will see us investing deliberately in governance, people, research, and systems.

These efforts position SCS to deliver integrated, person-centred impact with greater focus, scale, and sustainability over the next five years.

Year in Review Highlights

Hope

From Awareness to Action:
Re-designing How We Drive Screening Uptake

  • Shifted prevention from awareness campaigns to an end-to-end screening enablement focused on measurable uptake
  • Reduced access barriers by anchoring screening within trusted community partnerships and strengthening follow-through support
  • Piloting new screening modalities to test scalable, data-informed approaches for wider implementation
Care

From Hospital to Community:
Strengthening Continuity Across the Cancer Journey

  • Establishment of a joint oncology rehabilitation service with Tan Tock Seng Hospital
  • Seamless transition from tertiary to community-based rehabilitation
  • Sharpened focus on survivorship and adolescents and young adults (AYAs) in palliative care
  • Rehabilitation now begins earlier and continues seamlessly into the community
  • SCS strengthened survivorship and palliative care where needs are rising fastest
Community

From One-Off Events to Sustained Movements:
Rallying Communities and Voices

  • Transformed signature platforms into sustained engagement engines that deepen advocacy and encourage ongoing community participation
  • Intentionally developed youth advocacy (Gen C), cultivating a new generation of informed ambassadors
  • Elevated patient and survivor voices as central to public cancer conversations, strengthening trust, credibility and community ownership
Core

Bolstering Our Core:
Strengthening the Foundations for the Next Five Years

  • Strategic review as a defining organisational milestone
  • Co-creation of SCS Strategic Plan 2030
  • Early but deliberate investments in digital transformation and our people
  • 2025 set the strategic direction for the next five years of impact
  • Stronger systems, people, and purpose underpin the SCS Strategic Plan 2030

Impact in Pictures

In 2025, Singapore Cancer Society’s cancer care navigators guided 2,545 individuals and families to resources and services. This represented a growth of over 75 percent from the previous year.
Our cancer survivors find safe, trusted spaces for peer connection. In 2025, we had 3,251 attendances across 124 support group sessions. Our new Ground-Up Initiative strengthened community belonging among members.
It was a milestone year for Singtel - Singapore Cancer Society Race Against Cancer 2025 (RAC) which saw 7,835 participants across 306 teams come together to raise a record-breaking $2.5 million.
In 2025, we expanded access to women’s cancer prevention, enabling 14,000 to receive their first HPV vaccination while screening 6,323 women for breast cancer and 2,033 for cervical cancer. 
Hope

In 2025, we strengthened Singapore's culture of cancer prevention by bringing knowledge, screening, and vaccination directly to the community.

Reached over 317,000 via community outreach in 2025* * Figure reflects cumulative engagements across events, community and corporate outreach, and integrated campaigns in 2025. Individuals may have been engaged more than once across initiatives.
13,288 cancer screenings enabled
More than 90% of participants surveyed shared that they have learned more about cancer, screenings, and would go for screening/recommend screening to loved ones
Care

By bridging clinical care with emotional, financial, and social support, Singapore Cancer Society delivers integrated, comprehensive care that goes beyond treatment.

2,545 individuals guided to the most suitable services through our Cancer Care Navigation programme
493 clients supported through psychosocial services over 1,510 counselling sessions
Close to $2.88M disbursed in welfare aid to cancer patients and families
3,251 attendances across 124 support group sessions
842 patients supported through cancer rehabilitation care
465 patients cared for through our home hospice service
Community

Across Singapore, communities play a vital role in supporting individuals and families affected by cancer. Through movement, advocacy, and inclusive community spaces, our collective efforts transform participation into impact.

180+ corporate and school teams mobilised
13,000+ participants engaged across major community events
937 volunteers engaged, who contributed 7,204 volunteering hours
More than $4.5 million raised from our two major flagship events to support cancer patients, survivors, and families
Core

SCS invests in our people, culture, digital capabilities, and evidence-based knowledge. By strengthening capabilities at the core, we support sustainable impact.

S$300,000 in research grant funding committed
SCS invested 5 times more in training compared to 2024, supporting 200 staff training opportunities
SCS started phase one of its digital transformation journey, focusing on building integrated systems to support client-facing work
46 hours invested in staff engagement across 20 sessions, strengthening a culture of openness and trust

The Community Behind the Cause

At REVL Singapore, we believe fitness is at its best when it unites people behind a greater purpose. Supporting SCS is a natural extension of that belief. Many in our community have been personally touched by cancer, and we have long admired the way SCS provides practical support and hope to families who need it most.

Working with SCS has been deeply rewarding. The team is passionate, grounded in purpose and a joy to collaborate with, making every initiative feel meaningful. What stands out most is the organisation’s genuine commitment to the people it serves. You feel that sincerity in every interaction.

Going forward, REVL SG hopes to continue contributing in ways that align with our mission and community, whether through purposeful initiatives, fundraising efforts, or awareness activities that can drive real impact. We value this partnership and look forward to creating even more opportunities to do good together.

Director of REVL SG Ollie Wang

I’ve been SCS’s Goodwill Ambassador for quite a few years, and I want to do it in honour of everyone who has lost the battle to cancer, and everyone who is continuing the fight. My brother passed away from cancer, and SCS reached out to me asking if I could help out. I felt like it was him smiling down at me and saying, ‘Yeah, let’s do this.’ The atmosphere is always very warm—filled with people who have purpose and who are doing something meaningful, something that will help as many people as we can. It’s a lovely atmosphere to be in.

SCS Goodwill Ambassador Bridget Fernandez

During my husband’s cancer journey, SCS’s hospice team was a constant source of support. They visited our home, providing medical care, guidance, and emotional comfort, allowing me to focus on spending meaningful time with him in his final months. Days before his passing, he expressed his gratitude with a donation to SCS, a wish I honoured in 2020. Since then, I have continued donating annually in his name to remember him, knowing that his generosity lives on.

Through her donations, Joanne keeps her late husband, Mr Dick Tan’s presence alive, showing how one person’s generosity can extend beyond a lifetime. Her simple belief—“every drop makes an ocean” — captures the lasting impact of giving in memory of loved ones, turning grief into a legacy of compassion.

Donor in memory
of the late Mr Dick Tan Joanne Song

As a breast cancer survivor, I first volunteered with SCS between late 1993 and 2002, by sharing my experience in hospital and support-group settings when needed. After returning to SCS for cancer rehabilitation in 2024, I completed SCS’s volunteer training and began serving as a Patient Ambassador for CAmpung Cafe.

My most memorable moments are when fellow cancer warriors feel encouraged and realise they are not alone in their cancer journey. Volunteering has deepened my compassion and strengthened my passion to walk alongside breast cancer survivors, especially those who have undergone mastectomies.

I hope more people know that SCS provides volunteers with training and guidance, and that a survivor’s lived experience can encourage and touch many lives when they are ready to serve and share.

Patient Ambassadorfor
CAmpung Cafe Ms Cathryn Tan

I’m incredibly fortunate to be one of the Youth Ambassadors here. I’m here to show love and support to everyone on this journey—we can get through this together. It’s definitely not easy, especially for those going through the cancer journey, so I’m really glad that there’s such a nice community around.

SCS Youth Ambassador Jeremiah Tang

Cancer has shaped my life deeply. My mother’s diagnosis and, later, losing her after a recurrence were among the hardest experiences I’ve faced. Volunteering with SCS allows me to honour her courage by giving back to our community.

It has also reinforced for me how critical regular screenings and timely treatments are, and I am passionate about encouraging more people to take preventive steps for their better health more seriously. I am also a regular donor to SCS.

I hope more people understand that you do not need a medical background to contribute meaningfully. SCS provides proper briefings, resources and training, so that anyone, regardless of age, background or experience, can make a difference through small acts of kindness.

SCS Volunteer & Donor Krishnan Manoharan

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