Vision: 
To bring all stakeholders together to collaborate, share resources, generate synergy, and further our specific missions to reach our common goal of eliminating preventable colon cancer through screening.

Mission:
To work collectively to increase the number of Kentuckians who receive appropriate colon cancer screening.

Next Meeting:

• Thurs., Aug. 19, 9:30 am EST, Franklin County Community Health Center, Frankfort
  

CAMPAIGN MATERIALS:
Contact your Kentucky Cancer Program Regional Cancer Control Specialist to inquire as to the availability of printed copies. Or download and print your own copies below. There is room on all materials to add a label with your organization’s contact information. The materials are:

• Poster (11 x 17)
• Flyer size version of Poster (8 ½ x 11)
• Bookmark
• Church Bulletin Insert
• How to Utilize Colon Cancer Campaign Materials

Meeting Minutes:

• May 20, 2010
  April 15, 2010
• April 16, 2009
• May 21, 2009
• June 18, 2009
• July 16, 2009
• Aug. 20, 2009
• Sept. 17, 2009
• Oct. 15, 2009
• Nov. 19, 2009
• Dec. 17, 2009
• Jan. 21, 2010
• Feb 18, 2010
• March 18, 2010
  

Kentucky Cancer Action Plan
The colon cancer section of the Cancer Action Plan was updated in February 2009.  Browse the entire plan here.

Kentucky Colon Cancer Screening Program

• The Kentucky Colon Cancer Screening Act (HB 415) was signed into law on April 15, 2008, becoming the Kentucky Colon Cancer Screening Program (KRS 214.540-544).
  
  
• The law established a colon cancer screening program within the Kentucky Department of Public Health to provide screening services to uninsured individuals age 50 to 64 and others at high risk. The bill was passed without funding. 
  
  
• In May of 2010, Governor Beshear added to the 2008 statute by signing a measure permitting the Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH) to establish an income-based fee scale for colon cancer screenings if state funding becomes available. The legislation also established the Colon Cancer Screening Program Fund, which may accept state general fund appropriations, as well as funds from any state, federal or private source. The bill was also re-named in honor of Richard “Butch” Stewart, a long-time employee of the Kentucky General Assembly who died from colon cancer.
  
  
• On June 4, 2010 legislators allocated $50,000 of coal severance tax dollars to each of four eastern Kentucky counties for use towards "colon cancer screening/care".  The money was earmarked in the budget bill (House Bill 1 Senate Committee Substitute) to go directly to the county health departments in Floyd, Letcher, Martin and Pike counties.
  

For more information about the Committee, contact Katie Bathje at or (859) 219-9772, ext. 275.