The Department of
Family Medicine and Community Health
(DFMCH), John A. Burns School of Medicine,
University of Hawai‘i (UH) is implementing
three regional cancer prevention and
control projects in the ten U.S Affiliated
Pacific Islands (USAPI) funded by the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
The Pacific
Regional Comprehensive Cancer Control
Program (RCCCP),
the Pacific
Regional Central Cancer Registry (PRCCR),
and Pacific Center of Excellence
in the Elimination of Disparities (Pacific
CEED) report to the Regional
Cancer Council of the Pacific Islands (CCPI).
For documents about the Pacific Cancer
Programs please
click here
In addition, the 10
USAPI jurisdictions and territories
each receives a grant from CDC for
their respective CCC Programs. Each
contributes funds to the Regional CCC
Program.
The
USAPIs:
American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of
the Northern Marianas, Republic of the
Marshall Islands, Republic of Balau,
the Federated States of Micronesia, and
their citizens living in Hawai'i and
on the U.S. mainland.
• The USAPI region
spreads over one million square miles,
five time zones, and the international
dateline.
• The total population
of the USAPI is approximately 460,000
and an additional 100,000 in Hawai'i
and the continental US.
• Each of the USAPI
has unique cultures and histories with
many local languages spoken.
Challenges
related to the cancer burden and related
health disparities in the USAPIs
Significant health,
resource, and capacity disparities
persist between the U.S. and the USAPI
and within the USAPI, including cancer
disparities (Figure 2).
The rapid rise in
cancer rates and other chronic diseases
challenges the fragile health systems
and resource limited environments.
Insufficient infrastructure,
health care expenditures and community
resources preclude adequate prevention,
early detection and treatment.
Westernized
health systems are not adequately responsive
to the cultural preferences in health
care seeking practices.
Welcome to Pacificcancer.org’s
section on cancer information
This site has been created
to assist you in planning and implementing
cancer prevention and treatment in the
pacific region. It is our hope that you
will find resources and materials that
are usually spread out all over the Web
in one location.
You can may want to consult
a short overview
page of what is available, or use
the fold out menu on the top right corner
of each page to jump to a specific cancer
directly.
