Promote the Plan

Call to Action

Wyoming Cancer Control Plan

What can you do?

The Wyoming Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan lays out 19 broad goals that will make significant progress in reducing the burden of cancer among all Wyomingites.  To accomplish these goals, everyone needs to be involved in the effort.  The Wyoming Comprehensive Cancer Control Consortium and their constituent groups will work to achieve these goals, and there are things that each of us can begin to do right now to help work toward the mission of making cancer history for all residents of the Equality State.

Below are a few examples of what you can do to help work toward the goals presented here.  Use these examples, and think of other actions you can take to reduce the burden of cancer throughout Wyoming.  Fill in the blank spaces with your own ideas. Share your ideas by sending them to the Wyoming Comprehensive Cancer Control Program, 6101 Yellowstone Road, Suite 259A, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002.

If you are a hospital

• Ensure that your cancer cases are reported in a timely manner.
• Provide meeting space for cancer support groups.
• Collaborate to sponsor community screening programs.
• Acquire or maintain American College of Surgeons membership.
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If you are a local health department or community health center

• Ensure that your cancer cases are reported in a timely manner
• Provide cancer awareness information to residents.
• Collaborate in community walking campaigns.
• Work with physicians to promote screening programs and case reporting.
• Provide space for survivor support groups.
  AND___________________________________________________________

If you are a community-based organization

• Provide cancer awareness information to constituents.
• Promote cancer screening among clients.
• Encourage participation in clinical trials.
• Collaborate to provide community prevention programs.
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If you are a professional organization

• Provide cancer awareness information to constituents.
• Promote cancer screening among clients.
• Encourage participation in clinical trials.
Collaborate to provide community prevention programs.
AND____________________________________________

If you are an employer

• Provide healthy foods in vending machines and cafeterias.
• Encourage employees to increase physical activity.
• Consider implementing a worksite wellness program.
• Provide a smoke-free workplace.
• Collaborate with hospitals to host screening events.
  AND __________________________________________________

 

If you are a school/university

• Include cancer prevention messages in health classes.
• Provide healthy foods in vending machines and cafeterias.
• Increase physical education requirements.
• Make your entire campus a smoke-free environment.
  AND __________________________________________________

 

If you are a faith-based organization

• Provide cancer prevention information to members.
• Learn how to provide healthy potlucks and meeting meals.
• Open your building for walking clubs in cold weather.
• Encourage members to get cancer screening tests on time.
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If you are a physician

• Make sure patients get appropriate cancer screening tests.
• Refer patients to smoking cessation classes and nutrition programs.
• Be sure your cancer cases are reported in a timely fashion.
• Find out how to enroll patients in clinical trials.
• Make earlier referrals to hospice for end-of-life care.
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If you are a legislator

• Appropriate funding for comprehensive cancer control.
• Raise constituents’ awareness about cancer prevention and control programs in your district or help establish new programs where needed.
• Sponsor or support legislation that promotes cancer prevention and control.
• Ensure that all Wyomingites have access to healthcare and to cancer early detection screening programs.
• Ensure that tobacco settlement funds are used for tobacco and cancer control purposes.
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If you are a Wyomingite

• Stop smoking or never start.
• Eat more fruits and vegetables and maintain a healthy weight.
• Increase your daily physical activity.
• Know when to be screened and do it on schedule.
• Support smoke-free environment legislation.
• If diagnosed, consider enrolling in a clinical trial.
• Show your support and care for those who are diagnosed.
• Volunteer with your hospital, health center, faith community, or local American Cancer Society.
  AND ___________________________________________________