the Cancer Plan
the
Cancer
Plan
Cancer prevention and control in South Carolina starts with us.
Developing the Cancer Plan
The Four-Step Process
The Alliance observed recommendations form the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and divided the development of the Cancer Plan into the following four-step process:
Goals & Objectives
The Alliance focuses on the three types of changes/goals outlined in the table below. Each objective related to a goal must be “SMART”—Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results-oriented, and Time-phased.
Strategies
The Cancer Plan is a “living document” and will be periodically revised. Strategies for achieving the objectives and goals in the Cancer Plan, as well as specific plans for evaluation, will be added to the document soon after its initial release.
Gathering the Data
The Cancer Plan includes sources of data that will be used to monitor progress toward each objective.
Evaluation
Plans for data collection and evaluation will be included in a separate evaluation plan, entitled “Evaluation.”
The Alliance focuses on the three types of changes/goals outlined in the table below. Each objective related to a goal must be “SMART”—Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results-oriented, and Time-phased.
The Cancer Plan is a “living document” and will be periodically revised. Strategies for achieving the objectives and goals in the Cancer Plan, as well as specific plans for evaluation, will be added to the document soon after its initial release.
The Cancer Plan includes sources of data that will be used to monitor progress toward each objective.
Plans for data collection and evaluation will be included in a separate evaluation plan, entitled “Evaluation.”
Focusing on Three Types of Changes
Policy
Interventions or actions that amend laws, ordinances, mandates, rules or regulations.
EXAMPLES:
Tax increase for tobacco and other tobacco products, tanning bed laws/rules, random mitigation building codes.
System
Evidence-based interventions or actions that change the rules and activities within an organization; system changes often work hand in hand with policy changes.
EXAMPLES:
Automating reminder/recall for cancer screening across a healthcare organization, providing incentive for workplace wellness programs, implementing system-wide hospice referral process.
Environmental
Interventions or actions that make physical or substantive changes to the physical, economic or social environment.
EXAMPLES:
Building community walking paths, reducing geographic barriers to screening through the use of mobile mammography, making fresh fruits and vegetables available in food desert areas.
Interventions or actions that amend laws, ordinances, mandates, rules or regulations.
EXAMPLES:
Tax increase for tobacco and other tobacco products, tanning bed laws/rules, random mitigation building codes.
Evidence-based interventions or actions that change the rules and activities within an organization; system changes often work hand in hand with policy changes.
EXAMPLES:
Automating reminder/recall for cancer screening across a healthcare organization, providing incentive for workplace wellness programs, implementing system-wide hospice referral process.
Interventions or actions that make physical or substantive changes to the physical, economic or social environment.
EXAMPLES:
Building community walking paths, reducing geographic barriers to screening through the use of mobile mammography, making fresh fruits and vegetables available in food desert areas.
2027-2031 South Carolina State Cancer Plan Proposed Workgroup Structure
Eight topic-specific workgroups develop and carry out the Plan’s 40 objectives. Seven are shown here as petals. The eighth, Community Health, Policy, and Advocacy, is drawn as a ring rather than a petal because its scope runs across every topic area rather than alongside them. Data and Evaluation, the inner ring, is a shared function supporting all eight. At the center, the Core Steering Committee sets strategic direction and coordinates the whole.
"The Cancer Plan is our strongest and most direct road map to reducing the impact of cancer in South Carolina."
Dr. Gerald Wilson Surgeon (retired), Midlands Surgical Associates