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PDF Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan

The Cherokee Nation Tribal Jurisdictional Service Area (CNTJSA) includes a network of one Cherokee Nation W.W. Hastings Hospital, six Cherokee Nation Health Centers, two Cherokee Nation satellite clinics, one employee clinic, the Jack Brown Center -which is a twenty-four bed co-educational facility for chemical dependency treatment accredited by the Commission for Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), and one Claremore Indian Hospital which is run by the Indian Health Services.

PDF Cancer Prevention and Worksite Health Promotion

Cancer Prevention in the Workplace Writing Group

PDF CDC Internet Site Features Comprehensive Cancer Control (CCC) Plans

A new site on the CDC Internet provides quick and easy access to Comprehensive Cancer Control (CCC) plans.

PDF Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults

This is the 31st tobacco-related Surgeon General’s report issued since 1964. It describes the epidemic of tobacco use among youth ages 12 through 17 and young adults ages 18 through 25, including the epidemiology, causes, and health effects of this tobacco use and interventions proven to prevent it.

Powerpoint Diabetes: Tobacco Use as a Risk Factor

Discuss the relationship between tobacco use and the development of diabetes.

PDF Diabetes and Commercial Tobacco Use Brochure

Diabetes occurs when the body does not produce enough insulin, does not produce it well, or both.

success-story Increasing Access to Chronic Disease Programs in Tribal Communities

PDF Vital Signs: Colorectal Cancer Screening, Incidence, and Mortality

Screening lowers colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality. CRC is preventable through the removal of premalignant polyps and is curable if diagnosed early. Increased CRC screening and reduced CRC incidence and mortality are among the Healthy People 2020 objectives.

PDF Adherence to Colorectal Cancer Screening

Despite evidence that several colorectal cancer(CRC)screening strategies can reduce CRC mortality,screening rates remain low.This study aimed to determine whether the approach by which screening is recommended influences adherence.

PDF Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Among American Indian Men Aged 50 or Older, Kansas and Missouri

American Indian (AI) men have some of the highest rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) in the United States but among the lowest screening rates. Our goal was to better understand awareness and discourse about colorectal cancer in a heterogeneous group of AI men in the Midwestern United States.