If you are a Nevada resident…you can reduce your cancer risk by:
- Receiving regular medical care
- Avoiding all tobacco products
- Reducing your exposure to second-hand smoke
- Limiting alcohol use
- Avoiding excessive exposure to ultraviolet rays from the sun and tanning beds
- Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables
- Maintaining a healthy weight
- Being physically active
- Becoming an advocate for smoke-free environments
If you represent one of the following organizations, you can help reduce the risk of cancer in Nevada by:
Employer
- Establish a smoke-free work place policy
- Provide healthy foods in vending machines and cafeterias
- Encourage employees to increase physical activity
- Collaborate with hospitals to host screening events
- Provide health insurance coverage
Faith Based Organization
- Provide cancer prevention information to members
- Collaborate with other community-based groups
- Learn how to provide healthy potlucks and meeting meals
- Open your building for walking clubs
- Encourage members to get cancer screening tests on time
Hospital
- Assure that your cancer cases are reported in a timely manner
- Provide meeting space for cancer support groups
- Collaborate to sponsor community screening and education programs
Physician, Nurse, Social Worker, or Other Health Care Provider
- Make sure patients get appropriate information on screening tests
- Refer patients to smoking cessation classes and nutrition programs
- Be sure your cancer cases are reported in a timely manner
- Find out how to enroll patients in clinical trials
- Make earlier referrals to hospice for end of life care
- Encourage participation in cancer clinical trials
Public Health Department
- Provide cancer awareness information and data to citizens and groups
- Collaborate with community-based coalitions
- Work with physicians and other health care providers to promote screening programs and case management
- Provide space for community survivor support group meetings
- Assess community needs and implement policy and environmental changes to reduce cancer risks
- Assure access to care for uninsured and underinsured
- Encourage participation in cancer clinical trials
Professional Health Organization
- Provide continuing education credits on cancer topics
- Include clinical trials information in meeting agendas
- Form speakers’ bureaus to provide cancer education
- Train facilitators for survivor support groups
School or University
- Include cancer prevention messages in health classes
- Provide healthy foods in vending machines and cafeterias
- Increase physical education requirements
- Make your entire campus a smoke-free environment
