National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program 30th Anniversary: Closing Video

The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program celebrates 30 years of screening women and saving lives. 

Audio Descriptive Text

• Our Work Ahead: The Next Chapter of the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Faye Wong, Chief, Program Services Branch, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, CDC.
• Trenessa K. Jones and another staff member sharing information.
• Women stretching blankets with ribbons.
• Kelly Shaw, MPH, Program Manager, 1991 to 1999 and 2020 to current, Washington.
• Bonnie Anderson, BA, LPN, Wellness Nurse Manager, Milwaukee Catholic Home, Nurses Affecting Change B’CAUSSSE, Wisconsin.
• Trenessa K. Jones speaking to her staff.
• A panel of printed materials, including Breast Cancer Facts and Pathways to a Healthy Life.
• A library with the word PRIDE on top of bookshelves.
• Charissa Rivers, Public Health Advisor, PSB, DCPC, CDC.
• Guam Cancer Care and American Cancer Society staff members wearing Join the Fight against cancer on Guam gear.
• A group of women from the Marshall Islands in front of a banner that says Kdrik, Hope, Iakwe.
• A group of people wearing shirts that say “Walking for the Cure” and holding a banner that says “Breast Cancer Awareness”.
• Michael G. Dickey, MPH, Director, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, South Carolina.
• Justin Pentenrieder, Program Manager, You First, Vermont.
• A woman walking in front of the Community Halal Store.
• A rural farm with sheep and donkeys.
• A tribal doll next to plants inside a room.
• Trenessa K. Jones, DSL, Program Director, Best Chance Network, South Carolina.
• Captain Jacqueline Miller, MD, FACS, Medical Director, National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, PSB, DCPC, CDC.
• Nancy Kaplan, Former Program Manager, You First, Vermont.
• A person walking next to a CVOEO.
• A Native American.
• “All Are Welcome Here” banners in English and Spanish.
• Charissa Rivers speaking.
• Members of Guam’s Department of Public Health and Social Services with brochures and a banner behind them listing the services offered by the Guam Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program.
• A group of women with their children.
• Sandra Millon Underwood, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Director, Partners in Pursuit of the Promise, B’CAUSSSE, Consultant, Nurses Affecting Change, Wisconsin.
• A health professional with her patient.
• A health professional discussing health results with her patient.
• Sandra Millon Underwood speaking.
• Three women at a park.
• A health professional witnessing two women embracing each other.
• Curtis Briscoe, BA, Program Director, Navajo Nation Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention Program (NNBCCPP).
• A person inside of a car with a bottle of water and NNBCCPP brochures and flyers.
• An NNBCCPP health professional with a patient.
• Two NNBCCPP health professionals in front of a home.
• Debra Younginer, Deputy Branch Chief, PSB, DCPC, CDC.
• Sandra Millon Underwood speaking.
• Michael G. Dickey speaking.
• Multiple takes of different women.
• This video was produced and shot in accordance with CDC guidelines for the prevention of COVID-19 that were available at the time with great appreciation for all the participants and hope for a healthier future. Special thanks. National Association for Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) Rocket Camp. The “Enhancing Cancer Program Grantee Capacity through Peer-to-Peer Learning” project is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $850,000 with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government.

Script

[Faye Wong] One of the most important things the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program has accomplished is to establish a nationwide infrastructure for breast and cervical cancer screening that’s built on strong policy; it’s built on quality. It’s built on monitoring data to see what happens to the program. We still have not reached every woman to be screened. There are still population groups of women that have higher disease burden and continue to have health disparities, the lack of access to screening services.

[Kelly Shaw] There’s a lot of work that still needs to be done.

[Bonnie Anderson] Let’s say we only do 2,500 women a year. But just think, if there was five different programs like ours, that would be like 10,000 women a year. That would be wonderful.

[Faye Wong] We need to do better to reach out to communities of color, to reach out into tribal communities, to reach LBGTQ+ communities.

[Charissa Rivers] We want to make sure that the Asian-American Pacific Islander group is also equally represented and who we are trying to reach and get screened.

[Michael G. Dickey] I guess the population most that I see us not reaching as well as we could is the homeless and transient population.

[Justin Pentenrieder] There’s still a lot of communities we could do better with. We try to reach migrant worker populations, rural communities and refugee populations.

[Trenessa K. Jones] Women who are incarcerated here in South Carolina are not having the opportunity to receive the preventative medical services that we can provide.

[Captain Jacqueline Miller] There’s always never enough, you know, and that’s always a problem. So there’s always challenges. 

[Nancy Kaplan] We found all the people who were easy to find. And now the hard work is to convince people both that they’re worth it, that their health is worth it, to put themselves first to reduce any of the barriers to people getting screened.

[Charissa Rivers] We are doing more of the casting of a wider net, going deeper into the communities to be able to form those relationships, to get to the women who are rarely or never screened.

[Sandra Millon Underwood] Because we want our women in our communities to understand that we’re generally concerned about them and not just the program. Yes, we’re concerned about the program. Yes, we’re concerned about ensuring that all women get screening and follow up as needed and treatment as needed. But most and foremost, we’re concerned about them, as individuals.

[Curtis Briscoe] What I like to focus on when I talk to the staff about it is that one woman who hasn’t heard about cancer prevention, who hasn’t received a mammogram or a pap or cervical screening that we have to focus on that.

[Debra Younginer] So it doesn’t matter where they live or who they are, their ethnicity. It’s a woman, and it’s her life. And so we want to be able to, you know, detect cancer and get that taken care for her as early as possible.

[Sandra Millon Underwood] Women are interested. They’re ready to be engaged. We just need to prepare ourselves, position ourselves to do even more. 

[Michael G. Dickey] And that’s what it comes down to is everything’s not going to work. We may have some ingenious idea that we think is brilliant, and it might not work. But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try, because eventually you will find a solution that works, and then you’re going to reach people that you want to reach, and you’re going to change some lives.