Happy Holidays from the GW Cancer Center

As 2021 draws to a close, the George Washington University Cancer Center team sends wishes for a happy and peaceful holiday season. We appreciate the work you do every day to reduce the burden of cancer -- and never more so than during the challenges of the last two years. Here's to a productive new year filled with happiness and hope!

*Updated Version* Cervical Cancer Awareness Month Campaign

Through funding and support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the GW Cancer Center has updated its cervical cancer awareness month campaign! To assist with your planning for Cervical Cancer Awareness Month in January, we are providing the awareness campaign one month in advance. As always, the campaign includes downloadable tips for getting started on social media, and sample messaging for Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, including messaging around COVID-19. Access the campaign today!

Each year, the GW Cancer Center prepares a brief overview of technical assistance and training activities provided through its comprehensive cancer control technical assistance project, "Building Cancer Control Capacity: Scaling Evidence to Practice to Advance Health Equity." The purpose of this summary is to give an outline of activities and progress in Year 03 (October 2020 to September 2021); provide transparency and accountability; and create an opportunity for dialogue and input to improve future project activities. Access the report on the Cancer Control TAP website.

As part of its effort to assist Comprehensive Cancer Control coalitions and programs in addressing health inequities in cancer, the Comprehensive Cancer Control National Partnership will hold its next quarterly Zoom session on December 14. Speakers Angela Moore, MPH, and Trina Pyron, MA, CDC National Comprehensive Cancer Control Branch, will address Evaluation and Health Equity in CCC. Find Zoom call-in information on the Comprehensive Cancer Control National Partnership website.

The National Cancer Institute will retire the Cancer Control P.L.A.N.E.T. portal this year and transition its activities to other implementation science channels. Chief among these resources is Evidence-Based Cancer Control Programs (formerly R-TIPS), a searchable database of evidence-based cancer control programs. Resources previously curated on Cancer Control P.L.A.N.E.T. that remain available include State Cancer Profiles, Implementation Science Research & Practice Tools, Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide), and U.S. Comprehensive Cancer Control Plans, among others.

Does your program or coalition partner with health systems or providers? Primary care providers play a critical role in providing follow-up care for cancer survivors, such as the management of physical and psychological challenges experienced during and after treatment. Share the GW Cancer Center's Cancer Survivorship E-Learning Series for Primary Care Providers with your partners today. Participants will learn the nuts and bolts of patient-centered survivorship care, the late effects of cancer and its treatment, prevention strategies, and so much more. The E-Learning Series is a free, self-paced training that provides accreditation for CHES/MCHES (Certified Health Education Specialists/Master Certified Health Education Specialists), nurses, and physicians.