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.
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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.
PDF FluFOBT implementation Guide
The American Cancer Society FluFOBT program is intended to assist community health centers in increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening.
PDF Giant Colons Real Results for Tribes
Surveillance data show American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) have higher rates of colorectal cancer incidence and mortality, lower screening rates, and are more often diagnosed at later stages than Whites in many regions of the U.S. Screening can lower incidence and mortality rates, prevent CRC with premalignant polyp removal, and increase survival through diagnosis at earlier stages.