What's New

Kentucky Colon Cancer Screening Program The Kentucky Colon Cancer Screening Program (KCCSP) is a new program for low income, uninsured Kentuckians in ten regions across the state.  The program provides free colon cancer screening to Kentucky residents who meet certain eligibility requirements.  Through June 2014, services will be available in the areas served by the ten health departments who applied for and received funding. To learn more about the program, please view the KCCSP brochure.  Additional information may also be found at the Kentucky Department of Public Health website.

March is National Colon Cancer Awareness Month Dress In Blue on March 1, 2013! Encourage you friends, family and co-workers to get screened. Join the Kentucky Cancer Program, businesses and organizations across the state to increase colon cancer screening in Kentucky.  Learn more at Targeted Colon Cancer Screening Program.  Order free materials from the KCP Colon Cancer Screening Resource Kit.  Visit us on Facebook at www.tinyurl.com/KCPWest to enter the Dress in Blue contest and learn more about special events in March.

Adventure Weekends  - Offering Hope for Women After Cancer The Kentucky Cancer Program, Kentucky First Lady Jane Beshear, and Kentucky Parks Commissioner Elaine Walker are pleased to announce new weekends filled with adventure experiences for women who have completed any type of cancer treatment. Participants are invited to meet in the great outdoors at one of Kentucky's beautiful State Parks.  The fun filled weekends will offer memorable bonding experiences, inspiration to live life anew, opportunities to try a new sport for physical health, learn cooking tips for healthy eating, explore meditation exercises, or just relax in a tranquil setting. DATE: Jenny Wiley State Park/October 18-20, 2013 Deadline to apply - September 20, 2013 Our Adventure Weekend brochure gives complete information regarding the eligibility, lodging, transportation, and cost of this retreat.  (View Adventure Weekend brochure) To apply for one of the weekend adventures please view, complete and mail attached application.  (View Adventure Weekend Application) For more information about the weekends, contact:  Kentucky Cancer Program, 1-877-326-1134 or Office of First Lady Jane Beshear, (502)564-2611.

Smoking Cessation Classes The Kentucky Cancer Program and the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness offers classes that can help you stop smoking.  The classes use the Cooper/Clayton method, a 13-week course that meets one hour per week and uses nicotine replacement products and group support.  Thousands of people have used these classes to become nonsmokers and so can you. Classes are FREE. The Kentucky Cancer Program will be offering Cooper/Clayton to Stop Smoking class on Friday, May 17, 2013; 12:00 PM-1:00 PM.  Classes will be held each Friday for 13 weeks at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, 1st Floor Resource Center.  To register* for class please contact Rachelle Seger with the Kentucky Cancer Program; 852-5223. *Must be 18 years and older to participate in class. For additional upcoming classes please see schedule.  View Schedule

Hospitals get help with tobacco cessation efforts   "Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence in Kentucky Hospitals", is now available to help hospitals address patients’ tobacco use and implement tobacco-free policies.  A project of Kentucky Cancer Program's Providers Practice Prevention and the Kentucky Department of Public Health Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program, with the Kentucky Hospital Association, this free program features: A web-based video training for clinicians and staff on tobacco treatment.  The course demonstrates how to effectively and quickly address tobacco use with ALL patients, regardless of condition, as well as provide appropriate treatment for those willing and not willing to quit.  The training provides free CE credit to nurses, physicians, respiratory care practitioners, and pharmacists. Information and fax referral sheets for the free Kentucky Quitline, 1-800-QUIT-NOW. The quitline is a state-funded service through which patients interested in quitting will receive proactive calls from coaches who will assist them in a personalized plan. A toolkit providing information and resources to assist hospital administrators in establishing systems approaches for staff, patients and visitors; designed for facilities with tobacco-free policies.   More than 1,205 hospital clinicians and staff members have already participated in  the web-based training.  For more information or to order the program, hospital staff should call Celeste Worth, KCP's Professional Education and Training Manager, at (502) 852-6318.

Facebook The Kentucky Cancer Program is on Facebook!  Check out our Facebook page, and please "Like" us.  Our page features updates about all the Kentucky Cancer Program has to offer -- community programs, special initiatives, and special events.  We also post pictures of recent events. To view our Facebook page and become our friend visit this link: tinyurl.com/kcpwest