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Across the country events and conferences occur throughout the year to raise awareness about cervical cancer issues and to educate health care providers and the public. Please scan current conferences and events for opportunities for you to learn and become involved in your area.
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Below is a list of events the National Cervical Cancer Coalition (NCCC) has been in attendance/active at over the past year. This is the location on the NCCC web site where we will list future events NCCC will participate in and other events related to our issues.
Sponsored By: Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection and Control Advisory Committee (BCCEDCAC)
Location: Atlanta GA-
Start: Mar 04, 2008
End: Mar 05, 2008
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Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection and Control Advisory Committee (BCCEDCAC)
In accordance with section 10(a)(2)of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the following meeting of the aforementioned committee:
Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5p.m., March 4, 2008. 8:30 a.m.- 1p.m., March 5, 2008.
Place: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Tom Harkin Global Community Center, Building 19, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, Telephone: (404) 639-1717.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
Purpose: The committee is charged with advising the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Director, CDC, regarding the early detection and control of breast and cervical cancer. The committee makes recommendations regarding national program goals and objectives; mplementation strategies; and program priorities including surveillance, epidemiologic investigations, education and training, information dissemination, professional interactions and collaborations, and policy.
Matters To Be Discussed: The agenda will include a review and discussion of the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program components; and related policies and emerging issues.
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate. Contact Person for More Information: Debra Younginer, Executive Secretary, BCCEDCAC, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, Mailstop K-57, Chamblee, Georgia 30316, Telephone: (770) 488-1074.
The Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, has been delegated the authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining to announcements of meetings and other committee management activities for both CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Dated: February 6, 2008. laine L. Baker, Director, Management Analysis and Service Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Sponsored By: Upcoming Director^s Consumer Liaison Group (DCLG) Meeting
Location: Washington DC-
Start: Mar 27, 2008
End: Mar 28, 2008
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The next DCLG meeting will be from 8:00am - 5:30pm on Thursday, March 27, 2008 and from 8:00am - 3:30pm on Friday, March 28, 2008.
Agenda items include:
· An update from Dr. John E. Niederhuber, NCI Director
· Final Report of the DCLG Working Group on Involving Advocates in NCI Programs
· Presentations on programs targeting the elimination of cancer health disparities
· An update on electronic health records
· The NIH Working Group on Peer Review
The agenda is posted on the DEA and DCLG Websites. The meeting will be videocast at: http://videocast.nih.gov/.
Sponsored By: National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
Location: Washington DC-
Start: May 05, 2008
End: May 07, 2008
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CDC and 11 other national and international agencies and organizations will collaborate with the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases in sponsoring the 11th Annual Conference on Vaccine Research: Basic Science, Product Development, and Clinical and Field Studies, to be held May 5--7, 2008, at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland. The conference is the largest scientific forum devoted exclusively to the research and development of vaccines and related technologies for prevention and treatment of disease through immunization, bringing together human and veterinary vaccinology researchers. Twenty-two invited speakers will appear at five special symposia on innate immunity, cutaneous vaccination, adjuvants, universal influenza vaccination, and recently licensed vaccines. Six oral sessions and posters will include presentations selected through peer review from submitted abstracts. Eligible abstracts will be considered for the Maurice R. Hilleman Early-Stage Career
Investigator Award, which provides $10,000 for research expenses and a travel stipend and registration for the 2009 conference.
Deadline for submission of abstracts is February 15, 2008. Information about the preliminary program, abstract submission, registration, hotel accommodation, and exhibition space is available at http://www.nfid.org/conferences/vaccine08, and by e-mail (vaccine@nfid.org), fax (301-907-0878), telephone (301-656-0003, ext. 19), and mail (NFID, Suite 750, 4733 Bethesda Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814-5278).
Sponsored By: The DC Mayor^s Office on Women^s Policy & Initiatives, Washington Area Women^s Foundation, DC Women^s Agnda & National Women^s H
Protecting Our Girls: A Forum on Mandatory HPV Vaccination in the Washington Region
Location: Reeves Center 2000 14th St. NW Washington, DC -20009
Start: Sep 24, 2007
End: Sep 24, 2007
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Sponsored By: National Cervical Cancer Coalition (NCCC)
Cervical cancer/HPV Advocates conference
Location: Washington DC is the location of the meeting. Wash. DC Wash DC-
Start: Sep 12, 2007
End: Sep 14, 2007
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Sponsored By: Congressional Briefing on Cervical Cancer Prevention set June 19 at U.S. Capitol
Location: -
Start: Jun 18, 2007
End: Jun 18, 2007
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Congressional Briefing on Cervical Cancer Prevention set June 19 at U.S. Capitol
WHAT: A briefing on preventing cervical cancer through screening and treatment will be held Tuesday, June 19 at 9 am in Room HC-6 of the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
WHO: Dr. Mirta Roses, Director, Pan American Health Organization, will give welcoming remarks. Hon. Silvestre Reyes, D-TX, will speak at 9:05 am; Hon. Susan Davis, D-CA, will speak at 9:10 am; Hon. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-FL, is scheduled to speak at 9:15 am; Silvana Luciani of the Health Surveillance and Disease Management area at PAHO will brief at 9:20 a.m. on the cost-effective screen-and-treat demonstration project by PAHO; Christine Baze, a cervical cancer survivor, will outline the cervical cancer awareness campaign she started through Popsmear.org; and Dr. Cristina V. Beato, Deputy Director, PAHO will give closing remarks around 9:55 a.m.
WHY: Cervical cancer is a significant public health problem, with some 87,000 new cases and 39,000 deaths in the Americas in 2002, and a mortality rate seven times higher in Latin America and the Caribbean than in the U.S. and Canada. Among Hispanic women in the United States, the incidence rate is twice as high as among non-Hispanic women.
SIMPLER SCREENING: A simpler, cost-effective and evidence-based approach is available, and the Pan American Health Organization has been working in partnership with the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention (ACCP) to improve screening in low resource settings. A visual screening and immediate treatment (screen & treat approach) demonstration project in Peru, El Salvador and Suriname, which involved training health care providers in visual inspection (VIA) and cryotherapy treatment, community education to increase women’s participation, and integrating VIA screening and immediate treatment into routine primary health care services, has been successful. Through the PAHO demonstration projects 58,000 women were screened by VIA; 2,000 women were treated immediately with cryotherapy; and 150 women were diagnosed early with invasive cervical cancer and treated. Visual inspection screening followed by cryotherapy, which can be carried out by competent providers i ncluding nurses and trained midwives, is cost-effective. A single lifetime screen at age 35 results in a 30% mortality reduction; two lifetime screens at ages 35 and 40 years result in 70% mortality reduction.
NEW PLAN: The Pan American Health Organization is proposing a Regional Strategy and Plan of Action for Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control, aimed at Haiti, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guyana, countries with high burdens to screen 3.5 million women aged 30-49 at treat an estimated 300,000 women immediately with cryotherapy. Some 4,000 women would be diagnosed early with invasive cervical cancer and treated. This approach could reduce mortality rates by 30% by 2015.
PAHO: The Pan American Health Organization, founded in 1902, works with all the countries of the Americas to improve the health and quality of life of their peoples. It serves as the Regional Office of the World Health Organization.
Sponsored By: Sixth International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research
Location: -
Start: Dec 04, 2007
End: Dec 07, 2007
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Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, PA
Abstract Submission and Award Application Deadline: October 5, 2007
Sponsored By: The Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved
Location: -
Start: Nov 26, 2007
End: Nov 29, 2007
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November 27 - 30, 2007
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, GA
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 17, 2007
Sponsored By: AACR Centennial Conference on Translational Cancer Medicine: Technologies to Treatment
Location: -
Start: Nov 03, 2007
End: Nov 07, 2007
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November 4 - 8, 2007
Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 4, 2007
Sponsored By: AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics: Discovery, Biology, and Clinical Applicati
Location: -
Start: Oct 21, 2007
End: Oct 25, 2007
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Moscone Convention Center West, San Francisco, CA
Registration and Housing Open: June 1, 2007
Abstract Submission Deadline: August 20, 2007
