The American Cancer Society (ACS) conducts long-term studies on how research helps people to understand, prevent, and treat cancer. Research helps to identify links between a behavior or lifestyle and an individual’s risk of getting cancer. For example, cigarette smoking and lung cancer, or the impact of being overweight or obese on cancer incidence or death, and so forth.
Cancer Registrars collaborate with physicians, nurses and administrators to plan and conduct cancer prevention and screening events. They use information from research to identify what we have learned from research and to develop prevention events and educational topics that are targeted uniquely to the community.
The ACS infographic (see below) is a useful resource that can be used by Cancer Registrars and community outreach coordinators as they plan their cancer prevention events in 2021.
