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  Colorectal Cancer Prostate Cancer
  Gynecologic Cancer Palliation
  Lung Cancer Nutrition and Physical Activity
  Melanoma Cancer Childhood Cancer
 

Task Force Standing Committees

  Advocacy Ad Hoc Communications Evaluation
Breast Cancer
Co-Chair: Loretta Mikulski
Patient Advocate
South Jersey Breast Cancer Coalition
Co-Chair: Margaret Rojewski, RN, BC, MPH
New Jersey Department of Health

 

  • Awareness and Education
  • Research and Surveillance
  • Treatment
Colorectal Cancer
Co-Chair: Linda Johnson
New Jersey National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer
Co-Chair: Plyshette Wiggins
American Cancer Society
 
  • Awareness and Education
  • Treatment
Gynecologic Cancer
Co-Chair: Jean Shipes
(Ovarian) Teal Tea Foundation
Co-Chair: Margaret Rojewski, RN, BC, MPH
(Cervical) New Jersey Department of Health

 

  • Access to Care
  • Public Awareness and Education
  • Patient Awareness and Education
  • Professional Awareness and Education
  • Research
Lung Cancer

 

  • Tobacco Control
  • Provider Education
  • Early Detection and Treatment
  • Research
Melanoma
Chair: Jarrod P. Kaufman, MD, FACS
Advanced Surgical Associates of Central Jersey
NJ State Chair, Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons
Co-Chair: Arnold Baskies, MD, FACS
Our Lady of Lourdes Health System
President, American Cancer Society, Eastern Division

 

  • Awareness
  • Education
  • Treatment
Oral/Pharyngeal Cancer
Chair: David Lederman, DMD
Atlantic Oral and Maxillo-Facial Pathology
New Jersey Dental Association

 

  • Public Awareness
  • Public Access
  • Professional Awareness and Education
  • Research and Surveillance

For more information, go to the Oral Cancer Workgroup's webpage.

Prostate Cancer

Chair: Betty Gallo
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
The Dean and Betty Gallo Prostate Cancer Center
Co-Chair: Candido Africa, MD
New Jersey Department of Health

 

  • Public Awareness and Education
  • Patient/Client Education for Screening & Follow-up
  • Access to Care
  • Information for Medical Practitioners
  • Research and Surveillance
Palliation
Chair: Joan Monaghan, MS, RN, APN C
Hackensack University Medical Center
Co-Chair: Theresa Beck, RN, MPA
Visiting Nurse Association of Central New Jersey

 

  • Education
  • Access
Nutrition and Physical Activity
Chair: Elisa V. Bandera, MD, PhD
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Co-Chair: Mary Ann Ellsworth, MS, RD
New Jersey Department of Health

 

  • Cancer Prevention
  • Research
  • Cancer Survivorship

Childhood Cancer

Chair: Peri Kamalakar, MD
Valerie Fund Children’s Center
Saint Barnabas Health Care System

 

  • Adolescent and Young Adult Treatment
  • Secondary Malignancies
  • Pain and Palliative Care
  • Family Support
  • Education
  • Advocacy
Advocacy Ad Hoc
Chair: Sr. Maggie Lopez
American Cancer Society, Eastern Division

 

  • Structure and Funding
  • Access
  • Health Disparities
Communications
Chair: Kiameesha Evans
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey

 

  • Implement communications plan
  • Raise awareness and utilization of cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment resources
  • Strengthen partnerships
Evaluation
Chair: Marcia Sass, Sc.D
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of  Public Health

 

  • Assessing implementation of the NJCCCP
  • Measuring changes in health outcomes

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