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This is a guide on how Comprehensive Cancer Control (CCC) CDC state funded programs and their affiliated CCC coalitions can meaningfully engage with their American College of Surgeons (ACOS) Commission on Cancer (CoC) State Chairs. This guide includes an overview of the ACOS CoC, the role of the CoC and their State Chairs, and also describes how CCC programs and coalitions can work with the CoC State Chairs.

The Division of Cancer Prevention and Control is pleased to announce that four new National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program Success Stories are available online.

We congratulate the Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, and Wyoming CCC programs as well as the Geographic Health Equity Alliance (national network to impact tobacco and cancer related disparities) for using the success story application to write about their accomplishments in primary cancer prevention, policy, system and environmental change, and cancer survivorship. We encourage you to read these stories from your colleagues and to consider submitting one of your own.

This toolkit was developed by C-Change, a CCC National Partner, to assist coalitions in analyzing their membership and in engaging for-profit businesses in their coalitions. It provides guidance on building successful partnerships with businesses, features tools that can be adapted by CCC programs and offers additional resources.

Throughout history, perhaps no other disease has generated the level of social, scientific, and political discourse or has had the degree of cultural significance as cancer. A collective in the truest sense of the word, "cancer" is a clustering of different diseases that afflict individuals in different ways. Its burdens are equally broad and diverse, from the physical, financial, and psychological tolls it imposes on individuals to the costs it inflicts upon the nation’s clinical care and public health systems, and despite decades of concerted efforts often referred to as the "war on cancer", those costs have only continued to grow over time. The causes and effects of cancer are complex—in part preventable and treatable, but also in part unknown, and perhaps even unknowable.

Guiding Cancer Control defines the key principles, attributes, methods, and tools needed to achieve the goal of implementing an effective national cancer control plan. This report describes the current structure of cancer control from a local to global scale, identifies necessary goals for the system, and formulates the path towards integrated disease control systems and a cancer-free future. This framework is a crucial step in establishing an effective, efficient, and accountable system for controlling cancer and other diseases.