Key points
State and local communities can play an important role in helping people lower their lung cancer risk.
Overview
State and local communities can play an important role in helping people lower their lung cancer risk by using evidence-based approaches to:
- Reduce minors' access to tobacco products, including e-cigarettes.
- Help people quit using tobacco products.
- Help people avoid secondhand smoke.
- Reduce people's exposure to radon.
- Encourage people to be screened for lung cancer as recommended.
We offer some important resources below to help you connect with others and learn about approaches that have been shown to work.
Cancer and tobacco control programs
CDC's National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program and National and State Tobacco Control Program provide funding and technical support to state and territorial health departments to build and maintain tobacco control programs. Also, health departments can implement radon-related activities in cancer control plans.
Community Preventive Services Task Force
The Community Preventive Services Task Force has reviewed a variety of public health interventions designed to help people quit using tobacco, prevent minors from starting to use tobacco, and help people avoid exposure to secondhand smoke.
Evidence-based cancer control programs
The National Cancer Institute's Evidence-Based Cancer Control Programs website contains evidence-based cancer control interventions and program materials. It is designed to offer program planners and public health practitioners with easy and immediate access to research-tested materials. See their list of tobacco control evidence-based programs.
National Lung Cancer Roundtable
CDC is a member of the National Lung Cancer Roundtable. The Roundtable is a coalition of organizations and experts who work together to reduce lung cancer through prevention, early detection, and optimal therapy.
Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network (CPCRN)
The CPCRN created an interactive training curriculum to help community program planners and health educators use evidence-based approaches, and learn about new tools for planning and evaluating community health interventions.
Principles of Community Engagement (Second Edition)
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's Principles of Community Engagement (Second Edition) gives public health professionals, health care providers, researchers, and community leaders and organizations guidance for joining with community partners in projects that may affect them. This guide can be used by people in a range of roles, from the program funder wanting to engage the community, to the researcher or leader needing hands-on, practical information for getting people to partner in their research.
The National Radon Action Plan
The Environmental Protection Agency and partners developed the National Radon Action Plan to describe strategies to reduce exposure to radon, such as requiring radon testing and reduction systems. National Radon Program Services provides resources and links for states.