Comprehensive Cancer Control Program
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is a federal agency for supporting research to improve the quality of health care.
The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem through research, education, advocacy, and service.
The Cancer Control PLANET web portal provides access to data and resources that can help planners, program staff, and researchers to design, implement, and evaluate evidence-based cancer control programs.
The National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service provides the latest and most accurate cancer information to patients, their families, the public, and health professionals.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people--at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health.
The Iowa Health Fact Book is a compilation of state and county statistics about health and social behaviors.
The IDPH has made available two websites about sun safe practices that include:

A website (www.sunsafeiowa.org) that provides information about prevention, early detection strategies and resources.
A website that provides information regarding sun safety practices in the day care setting and a curriculum (http://go.prepareiowa.com/url/9j) to be used by day care providers to raise the awareness of the need for sun safe practices of two - five year olds and their care takers.

The Iowa Cancer Registry (ICR) is a cancer registry that provides data and expertise for assembling and reporting cancer incidence; information regarding changes in trends; and, conducting studies in Iowa.
Iowa's online source of cancer information www.canceriowa.org
Lance Armstrong Foundation
Low or No Cost Colorectal Cancer Screenings in Iowa - March 2010
TrialCheck^SM gives health-care professionals and patient advocates, a search tool for querying and screening hundreds of cancer clinical trials.
www.uiowa.edu/iowacancermaps links to spatially adaptive (smoothed) cancer maps showing the burden of breast, cervical, colorectal, lung, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and prostate cancer in Iowa.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) evaluates and makes recommendations to be incorporated into primary medical care; identifies a research agenda for clinical preventive care.

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