as Unintended Consequences of Tobacco Control Jamie S. Ostroff, PhD; Jamie L. Studts, PhD & the Cancer Special Interest Group (SIG) Behavioral medicine has played a seminal role in the development of multi-level behavior change interventions designed to reduce cancer risk. Most notably, comprehensive, multi-pronged population-level, tobacco control interventions have greatly reduced the appeal and…
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Health systems, providers, and organizations from across Connecticut are banding together to get the message out that lung cancer screening saves lives. The lung cancer screening workgroup of the Connecticut Cancer Partnership urges Connecticut people who smoke or used to smoke to ask their doctors whether lung cancer screening is right for them. According to…
April 3, 2023 Dear Connecticut Health Providers, Nationally, the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is estimated to cause about 37,300 new cases of cancer each year. We have an opportunity to eradicate HPV-associated cancers, and yet too many people are not getting this safe and effective vaccine that prevents six different cancers associated with HPV which include…
Connecticut Cancer Partnership (CCP) Lung Cancer Workgroup Meeting Wed., March 1, 2023, 9 am to noon, in person at Middlesex Hospital Attendees: Amanda Parkins, DPH Radon Amber Kapoor, Middlesex Health Brenda Cartmel, Yale University Erin Nielsen, ACS Gean Brown, Yale NHH Ilana Richman, MD, Yale New Haven Jason Bohn, Middlesex Health Jennifer McQueeney, Middlesex Health…
Attendees: Adams, Juana, Clark, Mitchell , Goldstein, Michael, Griffin, Amy, Hogarty, Lucinda, Litwin, Maggie, Mavani, Deepa, Shuttleworth, Katie, Vargas, Maribel, Chuang, Linus, Bolduc, Mick, Gonsalves, Lou, Anderson, Natalie Mike Goldstein shared a multistate Call to Action Initiative. The group agreed that we would work on this to be timed with Adolescent Immunization Week, April 3-7. See attached draft of the letter. We need CT-specific…