Cancer
Guidelines and Recommendations

Below are selected prevention and treatment guidelines, recommendations, frameworks, approaches, and other documents related to cancer. Also see related links on this page.

Sun Safety at Schools: What You Can Do (9/19/06)
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/nscpep/skinpdfs/sunsafety_v0908.pdf
School is a place where young people can learn important sun safety lessons that can make a lifelong difference. This brochure explains how school administrators and staff, parents, and community healthcare service providers can promote sun safety.

A National Action Plan for Cancer Survivorship: Advancing Public Health Strategies (4/30/04)
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/survivorship/what_cdc_is_doing/action_plan.htm
CDC and the Lance Armstrong Foundation are leading a public health effort to address the issues faced by the growing number of cancer survivors living with, through, and beyond cancer. Through their collaboration A National Action Plan for Cancer Survivorship: Advancing Public Health Strategies was developed. The National Action Plan represents the combined effort of almost 100 experts in cancer survivorship and public health. The National Action Plan identifies and prioritizes cancer survivorship needs and proposes strategies for addressing those needs within four core public health components: surveillance and applied research, communication, education, and training; programs, policies, and infrastructure; access to quality care and services.

Preventing Skin Cancer (2003)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5215a1.htm
PDF
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/rr/rr5215.pdf
The Task Force on Community Preventive Services conducted systematic reviews of community interventions to reduce exposure to ultraviolet light and increase protective behaviors. The Task Force found sufficient evidence to recommend two interventions that are based on improvements in sun protective or "covering-up" behavior (wearing protective clothing including long-sleeved clothing or hats): educational and policy approaches in two settings-primary schools and recreational or tourism sites. The Task Force also conducted a systematic review of counseling by primary care clinicians to prevent skin cancer. Rates of skin cancer, the most common cancer in the United States, are increasing. The most preventable risk factor for skin cancer is unprotected ultraviolet exposure. Only one third of adults reported that they use sunscreen, seek shade, or wear protective clothing when out in the sun.

Guidelines for School Programs to Prevent Skin Cancer (2002)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5104a1.htm
This report reviews scientific literature regarding the rates, trends, causes, and prevention of skin cancer and presents guidelines for schools to implement a comprehensive approach to preventing skin cancer.

Guidance for Comprehensive Cancer Control Planning: Guidelines and Toolkit (2002)
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/ncccp/guidelines/index.htm
This document presents guidelines for developing a comprehensive cancer control (CCC) plan that can be both implemented and evaluated. The information contained in this document is based on the experiences of several states that undertook a comprehensive cancer control planning process in recent years. These states, called “model planning states,” included four that had participated in comprehensive cancer control case studies in 1997 and 1998 (Arkansas, Illinois, Maine, and Utah) and two additional states (Kansas and Kentucky). Each of the model planning states worked with a Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) program consultant and a Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation (CPHRE) liaison to go through a planning process to develop a comprehensive cancer control plan.

Mammography Screening (Press Release) (2002)
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/20020221.html (Non-CDC site)
Spanish version
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/20020221sp.html (Non-CDC site)
USPSTF Web Site
http://www.ahcpr.gov/clinic/3rduspstf/breastcancer/ (Non-CDC site)
This links to the statement from the Department of Health and Human Services on screening and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations on screening for breast cancer.

Implementing Recommendations for the Early Detection of Breast and Cervical Cancer Among Low-Income Women (2000)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr4902a4.htm
PDF (p.35)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/rr/rr4902.pdf
This report presents morbidity and mortality data regarding breast and cervical cancer, screening recommendations, an update on the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (BCCEDP), and recommended priority activities for NBCCEDP. NBCCEDP is a major public health effort to increase breast and cervical cancer screening among uninsured, low-income women.

Program Guidelines for Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection (1997)
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/nbccedp/bccpdfs/bccguide.pdf
The program guidelines for breast and cervical cancer early detection presented here were developed to help public health professionals implement comprehensive programs to reduce and potentially eliminate morbidity and mortality associated with breast and cervical cancers.

The Manual of Intervention Strategies to Increase Mammography Rates (1997)
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/nbccedp/bccpdfs/prumanual.pdf
User’s Guide
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/nbccedp/bccpdfs/pruguide.pdf
This manual is a source of basic information on mammography and the intervention strategies and tools that health plans may use to help increase the screening rates. The manual is designed to be user-friendly, practical and adaptable to the needs and capacity of different health plans. The User’s Guide was designed to assist you in utilizing the Resource Manual.

Reaching Women for Mammography Screening: Successful Strategies of National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) Grantees (1997)
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/nbccedp/bccpdfs/mamog.pdf
This guide fulfills several purposes, including inventorying and assessing strategies as a gross measure of progress in NBCCEDP grant programs after 5 years of operation; profiling good strategies in a format useful for broader dissemination; and developing a resource for those trying to replicate these strategies elsewhere and especially for those trying to do so through collaborations between the public and private sector.

Collaborating with Managed Care Organizations for Mammography Screening and Rescreening: Guidelines for National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) Grantees (1997)
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/nbccedp/bccpdfs/mcobook.pdf
Its purpose is to provide useful background to set the stage for collaborations between health plans and NBCCEDP grantees both for one-on-one clinical prevention and for community-wide prevention efforts.

Related Links

Cancer: Women's Health Topics A-Z
http://www.cdc.gov/women/az/cancer.htm

Guide to Community Preventive Services
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/communityguide.htm

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