Mission
The Comprehensive Cancer Control Program works with its partners to implement evidence-based interventions and policy, systems and environmental changes strategies to reduce the burdens of cancer, address health disparities, and support cancer survivors and their care networks. Specifically, we work with our partners to support the primary prevention of cancers, monitor cancer incidence and mortality, promote screening and the early detection of cancer, improve access to treatment, and improve the quality of life for cancer survivors and their caregivers.
This work is accomplished in part through collaboration with local and national community partners, including The Partnership to Reduce Cancer in Rhode Island, the RI Latino Cancer Control Task Force, the Ministers Alliance of Rhode Island, Brown University Health Community Health Institute, hospital Cancer Committees, the American Cancer Society, and the National LGBT Cancer Network. Statewide Comprehensive Cancer Control efforts are described in Rhode Island’s five-year Cancer Prevention and Control Strategic Plan. This work is funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program.
What we do
- Primary & Secondary Prevention
- Promote the primary prevention of cancer, through public education and policy, systems and environmental changes that make healthy behaviors easier to adopt.
- Support community-based cancer screening and early detection initiatives backed by evidence-based guidelines.
- Support the work of the Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program and the Colorectal Cancer Program.
- Use data and success stories to educate health care providers about cancer survivorship issues from diagnosis through long-term treatment and transition back to primary care.
- Monitoring & Surveillance
- Monitor trends in the incidence and mortality of cancer in Rhode Island through the Rhode Island Cancer Registry.
- Distribute surveillance briefs and educational materials describing the burdens of cancer in Rhode Island.
- Support partners working to improve health equity by disseminating data describing disparate cancer risks and burdens of cancer.
- Policy, Systems, & Environmental Change (PSE) Strategies
- Support the work of the Partnership to Reduce Cancer in RI.
- Support community-based cancer prevention and control initiatives.
- Improve access to palliative care for people with cancer and their loved ones.
- Empower cancer survivors and their caregivers by identifying and promoting cancer survivorship resources, such as support groups and assistance programs.
- Partner with municipalities and recreation settings to improve sun protection policies and encourage sunscreen use for the public and outdoor workers.
- Collaborate with employers and insurers to develop and implement evidence-based initiatives that improve availability and utilization of recommended cancer screening.
- Publish and update the Rhode Island Cancer Prevention and Control Plan to set cancer control priorities for the state.
Accomplishments
Progress Report: Rhode Island Cancer Prevention and Control Strategic Plan
Below please find graphs displaying Rhode Island’s annual progress toward attaining the objectives listed in its current cancer prevention and control plan. These graphs are updated annually.