Community Outreach
Research on behavioral risk factors such as smoking, obesity, and sun exposure, and on environmental risk factors such as arsenic, is translated at the Center into community education and prevention programs targeted to the region’s underserved, rural populations. The Center’s “Kick Cancer” and "SunSafe" programs have brought cancer-prevention education to youth populations as well as adults throughout New Hampshire and Vermont.
The Center has developed several approaches to delivering advanced cancer care and technologies to patients throughout its rural region, including: web and computer-based surveys to enable patients to provide important medical and psychosocial input to their care team; and interdisciplinary clinics to coordinate visits to several providers in a single day, allowing patients to meet with the specialists who together will design their personalized treatment plan.
The Center’s website and Facebook page also serve to inform community members, patients and patient families about the Center’s programs and research.
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Famous quotes containing the word community:
“When you have come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,” you may indeed set over you a king whom the LORD your God will choose. One of your own community you may set as king over you; you are not permitted to put a foreigner over you, who is not of your own community.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 17:14,15.