May is National Skin Cancer Prevention and Detection Month

Longer days, warmer weather, don’t forget that sunscreen.  Protect the skin you’re in! Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States and the most preventable cause of skin cancer is over exposure to UV light (from the sun or artificial sources). How to reduce your risk: Stay in the shade, […]

CCC Resource: Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer Social Media Toolkit

We are pleased to provide the attached resource – Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer Social media Toolkit.  This is a very useful resource used to promote the awareness of the link between hepatitis and liver cancer.  May is Hepatitis Awareness Month and National Hepatitis Testing Day is on May 19, 2017.  Please use this resource […]

Young adult smokers – a hidden demographic

ORIGINAL FROM MEDICALXPRESS HERE In their many efforts since the 1990s to prevent Canadians from taking up smoking, governments have had a big blind spot: young adults. That’s the finding of new research published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health by Thierry Gagné, a doctoral student at Université de Montréal’s School of Public Health. […]

Rates of Colorectal Cancer Screening Lower for Adults with Disabilities

Article from OncologyNurse Advisor: Rates of Colorectal Cancer Screening Lower for Adults with Disabilities

Going Beyond Being Lost in Transition: A Decade of Progress in Cancer Survivorship

Article from Journal of Clinical Oncology: Going Beyond Being Lost in Transition:  A Decade of Progress in Cancer Survivorship

Using Logic Models for Program Planning & Evaluation for Tribal Agencies

Why all the excitement about logic models?  Using logic models for program planning & evaluation for tribal agencies. Our latest webinar why all the excitement about logic models? Using logic models for program planning & evaluation for tribal agencies is now available on our YouTube page.  The presentation slides are also available here.

Spirit of Eagles Second Call for Abstracts Due May 15

Greetings from Spirit of EAGLES! We got great responses to the first Call for Abstracts and reviews are underway.  The first deadline was early, but it was required for us to start the process of making continuing education credits available for the conference.  There are additional presentation opportunities available, so we have decided to issue […]

Kris Rhodes of AICAF meets with Michael Patterson of CDC TIPS Campaign at ATCA Summit

Michael Patterson, Alaska Native, Tlingit, from Juneau, Alaska, formerly featured in one of the CDC TIPS from Former Smokers campaign presented a personal gift to Kris Rhodes, MPH, CEO of American Indian Cancer Foundation.  The gift was an Alaska Native made necklace at the Alaska Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) Summit in Anchorage, Alaska on Saturday, […]
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NIHB presents National Tribal Health Conference | Sheraton Grand at Wildhorse Pass in Chandler, Arizona | LEARN MORE AND REGISTER

75 Years Later:  The Impact of the 1950 Papers on Smoking and Lung Cancer | This symposium will celebrate the achievements that have occurred over the past 75 years in the fields of tobacco control, lung cancer epidemiology and causal inference.  Two seminal papers on lung cancer and smoking initiated these three areas of scholarship in 1950.  Since then, significant public health, policy, and research contributions have been made by scholars around the world.  In this symposium, speakers will highlight such accomplishments and present their current research in these fields. | DOWNLOAD FLIER | REGISTER HERE

Association of American Indian Physicians 53rd Annual Meeting | Hyatt Regency Seattle in Seattle, Washington | LEARN MORE AND REGISTER

National Lung Cancer Screening Day | Now in its fourth year, this initiative is kpowered by a dynamic collaboration among the American Cancer Society's National Lung Cancer Roundtable, GO2 for Lung Cancer, the Radiology Health Equity Coalition, and the American College of Radiology. | LEARN MORE