California's Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan Progress Report 2009: A Collaboration between the California Cancer Registry and the Comprehensive Cancer Control Program

Comprehensive Cancer Control is a collaborative process through which communities pool resources to reduce the burden of cancer by focusing on risk reduction, early detection, better treatment, and enhanced survivorship. In an effort to achieve these goals, California's Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (CCCP) has worked to establish a statewide coalition, called the California Dialogue on Cancer (CDOC), assess the burden of cancer, determine priorities and develop and implement a Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan, first released in 2004. Beginning in 2009, the CCCP collaborated with the California Cancer Registry (CCR) in an effort to track, summarize and report out on California's progress toward achieving the goals outlined in the Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan. Together the CCR and CCCP determined which of the Plan's goals/objectives were measurable using statewide data sources, which of those should be included in the report and how that information should be summarized both graphically and descriptively to meet the needs of a broad target audience, including community members and researchers/academia. While the outcome of the report showed that California is not projected to achieve all of the goals set forth for 2010, it was identified that substantial progress is being made towards achieving many of them. Additionally, this data will be used in the 2010 Plan revision process, as CDOC aims to set more realistic and attainable goals for 2015, and will help CDOC team members identify key priority areas to focus their activities on in the next five years.