SPOTLIGHT ARCHIVE: Breast Cancer

Learning products and resources designed to help the public health community diagnose, manage the symptoms of, educate patients, and address public health issues regarding asthma.

Breast Cancer Learning Products

Follow Up of Abnormal Clinical and Imaging Findings of the Breast: Five Self-Study Modules for Primary Care Clinicians

• Designed to educate clinicians on providing appropriate and timely care to women with early signs of breast cancer
• Provides health professionals with examples of different approaches to early breast cancer detection

Promoting Cancer Screening: Office Systems for Success 

• Presents office systems to increase adherence to cancer screening guidelines for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer
• Introduces the multi-level barriers that present challenges for physicians and patients in adhering to cancer screening guidelines

NETS Module 9: Breast Malignancies

• Designed to serve those who will perform crisis and risk communication and media relations in the event of a public health emergency
• Provides cases studies and exercises

SEER Training Modules: Breast Cancer

• Introduces basic information about breast cancer including types, risk factors, and staging
• Provides information on abstracting, coding, staging, and treatment

Workplans: A Program Management Tool

• Designed to guide participants through the process of developing a workplan
• Intended for Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (BCCEDP) program directors and staff

Breast Cancer Resources

Valuable training and learning resources on the Spotlight topic, intended for the public health community.

• CDC Breast Cancer (See CDC’s Breast Cancer Research)
• Community Health Worker Programs Materials (See Part 1: Handbook for Enhancing Community Health Worker Programs: Guidance for the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program and Part 2: Breast and Cervical Cancer Messages for Community Health Worker Programs: A Training Packet)
• Engaging, Building, Expanding: An NBCCEDP Partnership Development Toolkit
• Health Information Translations (See information on breast cancer)
• Medscape Today (See Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer CME Learning Center)
• National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP)
• The Right to Know Campaign: Breast Cancer Screening (See Free Materials)
• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s (USPSTF) (See Genetic Risk Assessment and BRCA Mutation Testing for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility and Screening for Breast Cancer)
• Women at High Risk for Breast Cancer - What the Primary Care Provider Needs to Know

Additional Breast Cancer Resources

A range of resources on the Spotlight topic relevant to specific audiences, or useful to the general public.

• African American Women and Mass Media (AAMM) Campaign
• Alaska Community Health Aide Program (See Weaving Breast Health Intro Our Lives and Help Yourself to Health)
• American Cancer Society (See Breast Cancer)
• Avon Foundation for Women
• Breast Cancer eCard
• CDC Podcasts: More Cancer Healthbeat Podcasts
• CDC Health Disparities in Cancer
• Huntsman Cancer Institute University of Utah (Includes Steps to Early Breast Cancer Detection, Mammography Patient Education, Breast Biopsy, Breast Cancer: Surgery Options)
• Men Against Breast Cancer
• National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• National Cancer Institute (See General Information About Breast Cancer)
• New York State Department of Health Educational Materials (See materials on Breast Cancer)
• PA Breast Cancer Coalition (See Patient Resources)
• The Right To Know Campaign
• Susan G. Komen for the Cure
• Women with Disabilities and Breast Cancer

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Maintained by: Scientific Education and Professional Development Program Office

Information regarding training products and resources featured in the Spotlight was provided by

• TrainingFinder Real-time Affiliate Integrated Network (TRAIN), a free service of the Public Health Foundation
• Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (NCPC), National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)