Overview

The Colorado Cancer Coalition (CCC) is a consortium of organizations and individuals with interests in the prevention and control of cancer in Colorado.

The Goals of the CCC include:

• Promoting the collection and use of information about cancer
• Improving healthy behaviors
• Increasing screening rates
• Improving access to the full spectrum of cancer diagnosis and care
• Increasing health equity
• Setting targets to improve cancer prevention and control
• Supporting policies to facilitate these efforts

The goals of the Colorado Cancer Plan are to target risk factors and further reduce mortality. In addition, these goals aim to lessen, and eventually eliminate, the disparities in cancer in Colorado.

The CCC places great emphasis on aligning our goals and objectives with our national partners. The National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed the following priorities to be a compass and, like the Colorado Cancer Plan, to be a living document. As the comprehensive cancer control environment evolves and changes, these priorities will be modified accordingly. The National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program priorities include:

• Emphasizing the primary prevention of cancer
• Coordinating early detection and treatment activities
• Addressing the public health needs of cancer survivors
• Using policy, systems and environmental changes to guide sustainable cancer control
• Promoting health equity as it relates to cancer control
• Demonstrating outcomes through evaluation