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Cancer Plan Development

Instructional Webinar

Tuesday, June 25th, 2024, from 12-1pm



An instructional webinar for those participating in cancer plan development will be held on Tuesday, June 25th at noon. If you are participating in developing content for the cancer plan, this webinar will provide critical information to guide the process. The meeting will be recorded for those unable to attend.

Recruiting for Cancer Plan 

Subcommittees Now -  Get Involved!

We are now recruiting volunteers to serve on subcommittees that will develop content for the 2025-2036 cancer plan. If you would like to volunteer for a subcommittee, please sign up through the short three question survey by clicking the sign-up button below. Please sign up by Monday, July 8th. To learn more, visit the Cancer Plan Revision page on the CDOC website.

Subcommittees are as follows: 

1. Childhood Cancer
2. Early Detection and Screening
3. Cancer and the Environment
4. Health Equity
5. HPV Vaccination
6. Nutrition and Physical Activity
7. Tobacco Prevention
8. Treatment & Survivorship
9. Cancer Surveillance and Cancer Data Use

Subject matter experts needed to develop content for other topics. These topics will be addressed in the cancer plan but will not require a subcommittee.

Other Topics:

• Alcohol
• UV Light Protection
• Hepatitis B Vaccination

Time commitment for subcommittees: The cancer plan development process is projected to go through Spring/Summer 2025. Participation in each subcommittee is estimated to be: 

• 2 - 3 hours a month on teleconferences with your subcommittee
• 1 - 2 hours a month working on content on your own
• .5 hours a month on email communication
• Quarterly 1 hour check in meetings with all subcommittees

These times are only estimates and actual time spent will depend on your subject matter and subcommittee.

REGISTRATION OPEN:

“CCR Advanced Stage Breast Cancer Web Map”!

Thursday, June 27 from 12:00 -12:45pm

As part of the CDOC Surveillance Data Webinar series, CCR will present on “Advanced Stage Breast Cancer among Women 40 Years and Older by Medical Services Study Area, California, 2016-2020.”

State Cancer Plan Revision Page

on the CDOC Website!

Revision of California's Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan, 2021-2025 is underway! California will be developing a ten-year cancer plan to prioritize goals and objectives and allow flexibility for routine revisions based on evolving evidence and emerging needs. To stay up to date with all State Cancer Plan activities, please visit the State Cancer Plan Revision page on the CDOC website.

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The State Cancer Plan!

Spotlight your project or a cancer control member on the CDOC member project spotlight page!



To nominate a project or an outstanding member, click here.

2021-2025 State Cancer Plan Corner

June 2024 Cancer Plan Corner Highlight

Early Detection and Screening Highlight: Survivorship

Cancer Plan Reference: Chapter 9 Treatment & Survivorship

The goal of the Treatment & Survivorship chapter is to improve California cancer survivors’ quality of follow-up care and quality of life, and treatment outcomes through increased awareness, education, and access to survivorship and supportive treatment resources and services, including survivorship care plans that incorporate treatment objectives.

To read the objectives and strategies for treatment and survivorship in the state cancer plan, please visit our website. You may also access strategies here.

Contact info: cdocshare@gmail.com

June 25: The Atlantic Webinar - People v. Cancer

June 27: NCCN Webinar - Global Cancer Care in Older Adults: Improving Access to High-Quality Cancer Care for an Aging World

July 10: ACS Webinar - Overcoming Stigma as a Barrier to Equitable Lung Cancer Care

July 15: Trust for America's Health Webinar - How to Support Latino Cancer Survivors

The NIH Obesity Research Task Force (ORTF) welcomes you to the June 21st seminar on “Environmental Pollution, Climate, Respiratory Disease, and Obesity – The Association between Childhood Obesity and Exposures to Environmental Chemicals.”

This seminar will explore the links between exposure to environmental chemicals, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and obesity, ranging from mechanistic and

epidemiological studies through population health. Of particular interest is the impact of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, where they may be found, and how they may affect obesity in childhood. The event is co-hosted by the National Cancer Institute and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development.

Following the presentation, there will be time for Q&A.

Registration NOW OPEN!

Western Colorectal Cancer Consortium Conference (WC4)

The third “annual” Western CRC Consortium Conference (WC4) will be held as a hybrid event (in-person and virtual) hosted at the UC Davis Conference Center on September 26-27, 2024.

NEW! Funding Opportunity: Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Building Evidence for Effective Interventions to Increase Therapeutic Cancer Clinical Trial Accrual: Promoting Access for Patients from Underrepresented Groups (Due Sep 12)

NEW! Funding Opportunity: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evidence for Action: Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity (Open Until Filled)

NEW! The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) - support resources available. Visit their website to learn more click here

To read more about National Cancer Suvivorship Awareness Campaign, Visit the GW TAP website for more information

We need your help to change the future of cancer as we know it. Support our goal of reaching 100,000 Black women for VOICES of Black Women, a pivotal long-term study led by the American Cancer Society (ACS). This groundbreaking initiative will help us better understand health conditions like cancer to learn how to improve overall health and well-being among Black women. ACS is looking to mobilize local partners to share the study with their networks.

If you are interested in learning more about how you or your organization can support VOICES, please reach out to bridget.freeley@cancer.org for or if you have questions about the study, you can also contact thevoices@cancer.org.

NEW! National Behavioral Health Network (NBHN) - Their newly released resource titled, Addressing Disparities and Increasing the Quality of Tobacco Treatment for African Americans is now available. This brief infographic highlights the increased risk for tobacco exposure and use, emphasizing mentholated cigarettes, among the Black and African American community, and offers 6 equity-driven approaches to addressing this disparity.

The President’s Cancer Panel’s Initial Assessment of the #NationalCancerPlan is now available! Informed by stakeholder activities happening across the cancer community, the report highlights recommendations in five priority areas to accelerate progress toward the National Cancer Plan goals. Learn more about the challenges and opportunities identified by the Panel to ensure that every person in the United States has access to the best possible resources and care for cancer risk reduction, detection, treatment, and survivorship, Read more here.

City of Hope – The California Cancer Care Equity Act (CCCEA) The California Cancer Care Equity Act (SB 987, Chapter #608, 2022), which took effect January 1, 2023, expands access to optimal cancer care for historically disadvantaged Californians by requiring Medi-Cal managed care plans (MCMCPs) to make a good faith effort to contract with National Cancer Institute-designated and other specified cancer centers so that patients with a complex cancer diagnosis may more easily access care at these centers. The law also authorizes Medi-Cal members diagnosed with a complex cancer to request a referral to any of those centers and requires MCMCP to notify all members of their right to do so. You may read more about it here.



Read about the National Cancer Plan! We know that our continued progress against cancer is the direct result of advances made possible by investment from federal, state, and local governments, along with private investment, and by the sustained efforts of researchers around the world and millions of people with cancer, their caregivers, and advocates. Read more about the National Cancer Plan here.

NEW! Cancer affects everyone, but it does not affect everyone equally. LGBTQ+ individuals face unique obstacles in accessing health care, leading to disparities in cancer prevention and treatment. Explore the resources on the Prevent Cancer Foundation Website to find information on cancer screenings, tools to talk to your health care providers and much more.  

NEW! Fact Sheet: ACS Cancer in People who Identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, or Gender Non-conforming

Dr. Mandi Pratt-Chapman Advances Work on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in Cancer Continuum Mandi Pratt-Chapman, PhD, Associate Director, Community Outreach & Engagement, has co-authored a paper in the American Society of Clinical Oncology Journal on the significance of SOGI data in cancer research. She also gave an interview with The American Journal of Managed Care, which highlights factors affecting adequate, accessible health care for transgender patients and what she sees as the most pressing need to address in this community, and explores the potential for policy-level changes to benefit transgender patient care and experiences in clinical settings.

ACS CAN is happy to announce that SB 310 (Rubio, Statutes 2021) is now ready for implementation. SB 310, which allows cancer patients to coordinate with their physicians to donate their unused oral medication. The purpose of Senate Bill 310 is to reduce waste of cancer medication, save money, and increase timely access to these needed medications for those patients who cannot afford their medication or whose health plans forces untimely approval times. ACS CAN has worked diligently with SIRUM, and organization that works to connect people with surplus medication, to finalize the process. We are now reaching out to find oncologists who would like to participate in this program. Please see the flyer for more information here.

ACS Inaugural Report Shows Mortality for Preventable Cancers Among Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders in U.S. is 2-3 times as High as White People: American Cancer Society researchers highlight the need for disaggregated data to facilitate targeted cancer prevention and early detection within this fast-growing population.

• Link to the Facts and Figures Report: https://www.cancer.org/acs-aanhpi-2024.html
• Link to the Press Release: https://pressroom.cancer.org/releases?item=1319

Cancer Support Community San Francisco Bay Area Announces new collaboration at UCSF-John Muir Health Jean and Ken Hofmann Cancer Center Location in Walnut Creek To read more click here.

"Communicating trustworthiness and fostering trust" by John C. Besley, PhD, Ellis N. Brandt Professor, Michigan State University. To read more click here.

The CRGC developed several strategies targeting the “point of entry” of a patient’s race; that is the source where the patient encounter would result in the capture of the patient’s race. The first of these approaches is the MD office follow back. The MD office directed follow back consists of identifying patients reported by MD offices with an unknown race. With assistance of the CRGC Business Analyst, who identifies the patients by performing a SQL query on a copy of the CRGC database and creates MD office packets in PDF format, the Data Collection staff fax out the packets to the MD offices. When the packets are returned, the results of the follow back are evaluated and when a known race is provided, the patient’s race is updated in the statewide database. To assist physician offices in understanding why we need this information, the CRGC created a letter that is included in the physician office packet describing the importance of a patient’s race. Click here to see letter.

CDOC is made up of a diverse group of stakeholders that engage in important and impactful work we'd like to showcase. We have a new process for submitting your trainings, events, articles, grant opportunities, and more.  

We kindly ask you to email us any content by the 15th of each month to cdocshare@gmail.com. If there is time-sensitive information (e.g. upcoming training) that you would like to share, we will do our best to include, but cannot guarantee that it will make the newsletter or announcements.  

Submission requirements: 

• Include a title
• Include the exact verbiage you'd like for us to include. Please do not include an attachment and ask us to share, a title and verbiage must be included.
• Include a contact person for any inquiries   
• Include any attachments in a pdf file if possible

We appreciate your patience and support at this time, and we look forward to your submissions.