Alaska Department of Health and Social Services : CDPHP Announcement - Alaska Compreh

We are pleased to present Alaska's Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan for 2016 - 2020 and thank the Alaska Comprehensive Cancer Partnership (ACCP) for their work in preparing it. To create this plan, the ACCP looked carefully at the current cancer burden and the best practices for cancer prevention and control, and we recommend these future actions to address cancer prevention, screening, early detection, access to quality treatment, high quality cancer survivorship, and palliative care in Alaska through policy, system and environmental changes and the evaluation of progress.

All of us have been touched by cancer in some way and at some time in our lives, whether it is our own story or that of our parent, sibling, child, friend or work colleague. We know that cancer continues to impact lives long after the time of diagnosis.

This plan takes a comprehensive approach. It is a call to action for everyone to be involved. We can all do our part by helping ourselves and by helping others achieve healthier lifestyles, get appropriate screenings and volunteer to work on one of the many strategies outlined in this plan.

We thank the individuals and organizations who have dedicated their time and expertise to develop this plan. This plan is dedicated to all of the Alaskans living with cancer.

Dr. Jay Butler, Chief Medical Officer
Director, Division of Public Health