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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
RESULTS
The DCR has partnerships with the Delaware Cancer Consortium (DCC), Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN), Delaware Cancer Registrars Association (DCRA), and other inter- organizational and outreach programs. requests for providers, researchers, programs, and legislators in 2018.
After compiling requests from years interagency programs, making these
two categories the most common data requestors, as shown in Figure 2. Most of the requests were used for hospital administration and quality assurance efforts, as shown in Figure 3. The DCR has met and exceeded the expected cancer completeness necessary for gold shown in Figure 4. This is mainly due to the completeness and timeliness goals during this time frame.
HIGHLIGHTED OUTREACH PROGRAMS
DCR data is used by outreach programs to target education and interventions. Over the last 10 years, some of the ongoing initiatives are:
■ The Women’s Mobile Health Screening Unit has visited certain geographic areas based on high late-stage cancer incidence for screenable cancers.
■ Mailers were sent out to all Delawareans to educate them on the importance of prevention, screening, and treatment of chronic diseases.
■ Mailers were sent out to legislators in all districts summarizing cancer trends in their area.
■ The Screening for Life Program started offering lung cancer screening as a reimbursable screening to eligible clients in 2015 based on updated screening recommendations and the high burden of lung cancer in Delaware.
■ The Comprehensive Cancer Control Program partners with the Department of Elections to send a birthday postcard to
all Delawareans upon their 50th birthday to remind them of the importance of colon cancer screening.
KEY PARTNERS
Division of Public Health
The Division of Public Health houses the Bureau of Chronic Disease. The
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