{"id":13,"date":"2016-07-20T18:36:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T18:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/cancer\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:45:07","slug":"comprehensive-cancer-control","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/cancer\/comprehensive-cancer-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Comprehensive Cancer Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-13\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-13-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-13-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-13-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_media_image panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2025\/06\/AdobeStock_1495059022-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"image wp-image-121  attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2025\/06\/AdobeStock_1495059022-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2025\/06\/AdobeStock_1495059022-300x100.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2025\/06\/AdobeStock_1495059022-1024x341.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2025\/06\/AdobeStock_1495059022-768x256.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2025\/06\/AdobeStock_1495059022-1536x512.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2025\/06\/AdobeStock_1495059022-2048x683.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/div><div id=\"panel-13-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h3 style=\"margin-bottom: 3px;\">Virginia's Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (VACCCP)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">The mission of VACCCP is to reduce the incidence, morbidity, and mortality of all cancers through prevention, early detection, treatment, and rehabilitation. VACCCP is working towards accomplishing its mission by developing partnerships, delivering health information, providing training, and shaping policy, systems, and environmental changes. The <a href=\"https:\/\/cancercoalitionofvirginia.org\/virginia-cancer-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Cancer Plan<\/a> guides the work conducted by VACCCP and our community partners. Activities include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li>Encouraging people to live a healthier lifestyle<\/li>\n<li>Promoting cancer screening tests<\/li>\n<li>Increasing access to cancer care<\/li>\n<li>Improving the quality of life for cancer survivors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"margin-bottom: 3px;\">The Cancer Action Coalition of Virginia (CACV)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">The VACCCP partners with the <a href=\"https:\/\/cancercoalitionofvirginia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cancer Action Coalition of Virginia<\/a>, known as CACV, to address the burden of cancer in Virginia. They implement goals, objectives, and strategies outlined in the Virginia Cancer Plan. CACV serves as an important alliance of organizations and individuals working together to provide statewide guidance, support, leadership and coordination of cancer prevention and control activities throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"margin-bottom: 3px;\">The Virginia Cancer Registry<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-cancer-registry\/data\/\">Virginia Cancer Registry<\/a> (VCR) is a statewide registry of data on individuals diagnosed or treated in Virginia. Virginia residents who received cancer care out of state are also listed. This data helps to guide cancer control and prevention programs and initiatives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">The Virginia Department of Health maintains the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/data\/virginia-cancer-dashboards\/\">Virginia Cancer Dashboards<\/a>. They are a collection of individual dashboards that provide cancer data by locality, health district, sex, race, and cancer site. The dashboards show the burden of cancer incidence and mortality in Virginia.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Contact us at <a href=\"mailto:cancer@vdh.virginia.gov\">cancer@vdh.virginia.gov<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia&#8217;s Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (VACCCP) The mission of VACCCP is to reduce the incidence, morbidity, and mortality of all cancers through prevention, early detection, treatment, and rehabilitation. VACCCP is working towards accomplishing its mission by developing partnerships, delivering health information, providing training, and shaping policy, systems, and environmental changes. 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