Tuesday, April 23, 2024
4/23/2024
The Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB) is a tribal organization governed by the 43 federally recognized tribes of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, and represents 190,000 American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people. Our tribal elders and health care planners clearly recognize the immense impact that cancer has in our tribes, and they have looked to the NPAIHB?s Northwest Tribal Comprehensive Cancer Project (NTCCP) for leadership in cancer prevention in Tribal communities. With CDC funding, our project has provided critical services for our constituent tribes for seventeen years, and we have planned an even more comprehensive project in cancer prevention and control for the next funding cycle. As the first tribal cancer control project in the CDC Comprehensive Cancer Control Project, we continue to set a high standard in delivering a culturally appropriate quality project.We built a strong foundation for cancer control activities through our CDC Northwest Tribal Comprehensive Cancer (NTCCP) grant. The NTCCP will continue to provide technical assistance to tribes on tribal action plans for tribal cancer activities, resource information, cancer data and cancer education training through a variety of venues including the Clinical Directors? Update, Cancer 101 (community and health professional education curriculum), Risky Business (a chronic disease/multidisciplinary prevention training) and tribal coalition meetings. The NTCCP also actively participates in tribal health fairs, events, conferences, and trainings. We have established multiple partnerships with tribal, state, and federal programs in addition to cancer centers, universities, and private foundations concerned with cancer prevention among tribal peoples. The NTCCP was the first Comprehensive Cancer Control Project to: form a tribal cancer coalition covering multiple states, develop a tribal comprehensive cancer plan, design a tribal Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and collaborate with a wide network of partners. The tribal cancer coalition will continue to meet with tribal and comprehensive cancer partners to address cancer prevention and control, build partnerships, share data, cancer resources, identify and address common priorities, and develop strategies to eliminate cancer health disparities.The NTCCP?s expansion into new arenas include: conducting three new tribal Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS); work on tribal policies in chronic disease; work with tribal youth for cancer prevention; development of the tribal policy toolkit; and continued focus on Policy, Systems, and Environment. The Tribal 20-Year Cancer Control Plan, written with vision for a tribal future with lower cancer rates, higher survival and better quality of life for cancer patients and their families will guide the project. The Twenty Year Plan established a cultural context for seven generations of tribal people to come. The major objectives include improving: cancer surveillance; cancer education for clinicians, tribal members, and others who serve tribal health; cancer screening; treatment access; cancer survivorship; and better care at end of life.While we have made substantial contributions to tribal cancer prevention and control in NW tribes, there are still challenges ahead. We are optimistic that working closely with our tribal coalition members, our partners, and our CDC colleagues, we will impact the reduction of cancer incidence and mortality. We strive for improvement in cancer survivorship and quality of life toward the next seven generations of healthier, cancer-free Indian communities.
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