Click [ddownload id=”886″ text=”here”] to download our latest resource “Tobacco Treatment Coverage FAQ for Health Professionals” to provide some commonly asked questions related to how to implement the policy passed in 2017 that reduced barriers to tobacco treatment for Kentuckians.
KCC developed the “Lung Cancer in Kentucky” factsheet targeting public health professionals, healthcare providers, and decision makers with updates on the lung cancer burden in Kentucky, and collaborative opportunities to address it.
Lung Cancer Prevention and Survivorship is Good Business
BREATHE radon CE
This continuing education program will provide health professionals with up-to-date, relevant information about the negative health consequences of exposure to radon as well as the synergistic effects of radon and tobacco smoke. To promote this Continuing Education Opportunity, click here for the flyer.
KCC’s Lung Cancer Communication Toolkit
Check out the KCC Lung Cancer Network’s Communication Toolkit revised on November 3, 2017. Please use it within your organizations and share it with your partners.
Air Quality
Data
- Screenable Mortality Data Factsheets: Hundreds of Kentuckians die each year from cancers that might have been prevented or found early through screening. Among these screenable cancers, lung cancer is the No. 1 killer. Find your ADD below to see the data.
- Kentucky is #1 in the number of cancer deaths caused by smoking
- Commentary re: cancer deaths caused by smoking
- Lung Cancer in Kentucky: Snapshot
- Lung Cancer Mortality Report
Health Disparities
Kentucky Cancer Action Plan
Kentucky LEADS Collaborative
Lung Cancer Patient Transportation Support
Lung Cancer Screening
- Terminate Lung Cancer (TLC) Study – A mixed methods population approach to increase lung cancer screening awareness and low-dose computed tomography in Eastern Kentucky
- Considerations Screening Programs
- Cost Effectiveness
- Offering Lung Cancer Screening to High-Risk Medicare Beneficiaries Saves Lives and Is Cost-Effective: An Actuarial Analysis
- An Actuarial Analysis Shows That Offering Lung Cancer Screening As An Insurance Benefit Would Save Lives At Relatively Low Cost
- An Actuarial Approach to Comparing Early Stage and Late Stage Lung Cancer Mortality and Survival
- A Cost-Utility Analysis of Lung Cancer Screening and the Additional Benefits of Incorporating Smoking Cessation Interventions
- Screening Guidelines
- Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines: USPSTF and CMS, February 2015
Lung Cancer Stigma
- Lung Cancer Stigma Webinar Part 1 (May 23, 2017, Dr. Jamie Studts and Angela Criswell): Recognizing impact of stigma on lung cancers and their loved ones and discussing strategies for dealing with stigma
- Lung Cancer Stigma Webinar Part 2 (August 30, 2017, Dr. Jamie Studts and Angela Criswell): Focus on specific methods and techniques that can be used to avoid stigmatizing language
Radon Prevention
- Physicians Guide to Radon
- Know your number: understand your risk from elevated radon exposure
- Kentucky Radon Report
Secondhand Smoke
- Tobacco-Free Workplace Webinar (March 22, 2018, Dr. Mindy Ickes)
- Sociodemographic Disparities in Local Smoke-Free Law Coverage in 10 States – includes Kentucky
- “It’s about the smoke, not the smoker”: messages that motivate rural communities to support smoke-free policies
- Smoke-free Workplaces: Good for Business
- Smoke-Free Kentucky: Protecting Everyone’s Right to Breathe Smoke-Free Air
- High Impact Hospital Implementation Strategy
Social Media
Tobacco Cessation/Treatment
- Tobacco Treatment in Kentucky Best Practices Webinar (January 24, 2018, Dr. Audrey Darville)
- University of Kentucky Online Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training/tobacco-treatment-specialist-training
- USPSTF Summary Statement on Tobacco Cessation/Treatment updated April, 2020
- USPSTF Full Recommendation Statement on Tobacco Cessation/Treatment updated Sept 2015
- ACA and Tobacco Cessation Coverage Gaps in KY from the American Lung Association
- State health insurance opportunities re: ACA and Tobacco Cessation
- ACA and Cancer for Health Professionals
- Statement from Drs. Cooper and Clayton on e-cigarettes and their program
- Plan to be Tobacco Free card
- Cutting Tobacco’s Rural Roots
- Helping Smokers Quit
- Quit Now Kentucky
- Pregnancy/Postpartum Protocol Fact Sheet
- Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs
- Tobacco Treatment Coverage FAQ for Health Professionals
Who is Working on What
- Kentucky Cancer Consortium Lung Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Network: “Who is Working on What” – Updated June 2, 2015