CANCER PREVENTION, EDUCATION, SCREENING,
& TREATMENT
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Local Public Health Component
- Develop clinical guidelines for targeted cancers
- Fund local jurisdictions to implement cancer prevention, education and screening
- Conduct regional training and provide assistance
Statewide Programs
- Fund statewide skin cancer prevention
- Promote sun protection activities
Surveillance and Evaluation
- Collect standardized data on cancer education, screening and diagnosis activities in each jurisdiction
- Publish Annual Cancer Report
- Collect, analyze, interpret and disseminate cancer data
Academic Research Center
- Fund translational cancer research at Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland
- Fund Maryland Statewide Health Network
- Fund tobacco related diseases research
- Speed cancer research findings to practice.