To promote the care of, provide care and services to, gibe symptom control to and for, and organise and provide continuing and terminal care services to all persons with cancer or any other disease, where it is felt that a cure is no longer possible and for whom only palliative treatment is available and provide such services to all persons suffering from intractable pain, so far as this can be done without detriment to those suffering from terminal illness and to establish and operate a centre for such persons. (for further objects see memorandum)