1. Celebrating 20 Years of Collaborating to Conquer Cancer
Angie Ryan
Health Communication Specialist/Program Consultant
Comprehensive Cancer Control Branch, DCPC
VTAAC Annual Meeting
Montpelier, Vermont
September 21, 2018

2. The Ultimate Goal

3. Collaborating to Conquer Cancer: 20 Years of the NCCCP

4. All People Free of Cancer
Scale our best practices to increase impact of screening continuum
Improve health outcomes for cancer survivors
Elimination of preventable cancers
All people get the right care at the right time for the best outcome
Cancer survivors live longer, healthier lives
Aspirations
Translation & Evaluation
Partnership
Our Key Strengths
Data
All People Free of Cancer
Reduce the incidence of preventable cancers by reducing modifiable risk factors and promoting healthy behaviors … by educating people on obesity-related cancers
Our Guiding Principles
Address Health Disparities
Define Expected Outcomes Upfront
Collaborate
Communicate: Tailor to a Specific Audience
Strategic Priorities
Goal and Aspirations
Our longer term strategic framework.
Strategic Priorities
Objectives are identified based on need and our potential to impact that change over time as desired outcomes are achieved.
Evolving as we complete work and new opportunities become available.
Key Strengths
We demonstrate our key strengths by combining flawless execution of the familiar and a constant focus on innovation.

5. Division of Cancer Control and Prevention Foundational Programs
National Comprehensive Cancer
Control Program
National Breast and Cervical Early Detection Program
Colorectal Cancer Control Program
National Program
of Cancer Registries
1701 has three foundational programs:
For more than 25 years, National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) has provided low-income, uninsured, and underserved women access to timely breast and cervical cancer screening and diagnostic services.
In 1998, CDC established the National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (NCCCP) to support comprehensive cancer control in U.S. states, Pacific Island Jurisdictions, territories, and tribes and tribal organizations. NCCCP provides funding and technical advice to create, carry out, and evaluate comprehensive cancer control plans, which focus on issues like prevention, detection, treatment, survivorship, and health disparities.
Established 25 years ago, the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) collects data for 96% of the U.S. population on the number of cancer cases, as well as information on the type, extent, and location of cancers; stage at diagnosis; and the type of initial treatment. Together, CDC’s NPCR and the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI’s) Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program collect data for the entire U.S. population.
DCPC also has other funding streams that help us achieve our goal to reduce cancer burden. For example, the Colorectal Cancer Control Program (CRCCP) funded in 2008 has helped states and tribes across the United States increase colorectal (colon) cancer screening rates among men and women aged 50 years and older. Other examples include CCC’s National Partner’s FOA, which helps to provide TA to grantees, and NPCRS’s …..

6. National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program
CDC’s Vision: Collaborating to Conquer Cancer
Supports robust state, tribal, territory-wide coalitions
Addresses public health needs of cancer survivors
Plans and implements policy, systems, and environmental changes emphasizing primary prevention of cancer and supports early detection and treatment activities
Promotes health equity
The National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program began in 1998
CDC currently supports coalitions in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, 6 U.S. Associated Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico, and 8 tribes or tribal groups, to assess the burden of cancer in jurisdictions, create cancer control plans to prioritize cancer prevention and control strategies, and leverage resources to implement cancer control interventions at the state and local levels.

7. NCCCP
Funds programs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, 8 tribes or tribal organizations, and 7 U. S. Territories
Coalition Demographics:
100% include public health program representatives
95% include members from colleges and hospitals
95% include representatives from community groups like faith-based organizations
94% include members of professional associations for nurses, oncologists, primary care doctors, etc.
85% include people from local businesses
76% include people who make laws or local policies
72% include partners in local, state, or national government
Does this resemble the demographics of the VITAAC membership?

8. NCCCP Coalition Expectations
Each coalition creates and implements a CCC plan. This plan:
Identifies how the coalition addresses the burden of cancer in its geographic area
Is based on registry and/or cancer mortality data
Is created by the coalition as a blueprint for action and implementation
Is compatible with the goals of Vermont comprehensive cancer control plan
Is typically renewed every five years, following review and evaluation

9. External Partnerships - Why are They Important?
Support CCC coalition to ensure implementation of cancer plan
Leverage resources to implement strategies that address the NCCCP priorities
Formalize key collaborations
Collaborate with specific local stakeholders; includes local implementation grants
Help address future CCC coalition sustainability

10. National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program Priorities
My First Template
National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program Priorities 01
Emphasize Primary Prevention of Cancer
Implement PSE Changes
to Guide Sustainable
Cancer Control . 04 02
Support Early Detection and Treatment Activities
Promote Health Equity as it relates to Cancer Control 05 03
Demonstrate outcomes through evaluation 06
Address the Public Health Needs of Cancer Survivors

11. Overview of NCCCP Activities:
94% of programs are adopting strategies to help make life better for cancer survivors after treatment
84% of programs are implementing activities to lower cancer risks by eliminating tobacco use, encouraging people to be physically active and eat healthy, and protecting people from skin-damaging ultraviolet light from the sun or indoor tanning
80% of programs are working to increase colorectal (colon) cancer screening
62% work with partners to decrease HPV infection rates by increasing HPV vaccination coverage.

12. Comprehensive Cancer Control National Partnership
The Comprehensive Cancer Control National Partnership (CCCNP) is a group of national organizations including CDC whose purpose is to support comprehensive cancer control (CCC) coalitions in the states, tribes, territories, and U.S. Pacific Island Jurisdictions. These 16 organizations meet two times per year and support our national priorities for cancer control and provide technical assistance to our NCCCP programs.
*Note: The National Partners are NOT funded as a group, however, CDC does contribute funding and other resources to many of their initiatives and activities.
The first national partner meeting was in 1999 – ICC, ASTHO, C-Change (then National Dialogue on Cancer), NACDD joined the discussion at that time. Then LIVESTRONG, NACCHO, HRSA joined. Most recent partners to join were ACS CAN, LLS, Komen, Legacy (in that order). So for quite some time the core partners were CDC, NCI, ACS, ACOS C0C, NAACCR, ASTHO, C-Change, NACDD, LIVESTRONG, NACCHO, HRSA.

13. Celebrating 20 Years of NCCCP
For more information contact:
Angie Ryan
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