The Turn ND Blue Photo Contest is held each year during Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month in March to raise awareness about colorectal cancer across North Dakota. Colorectal cancer is currently the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States and the number one cancer killer among people under age 50. Because of this,
In observance of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month this March 2025, the North Dakota
Cancer Coalition is sponsoring our 9th Annual Turn ND Blue Photo Contest.
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Turn ND Blue Photo Contest Results The Turn ND Blue Photo Contest is held every year during colorectal cancer awareness month in March, to create awareness about colorectal cancer across our entire state. Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. The good news is that through earlier detection
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Questions? Please contact us or send an email to contact@ndcancercoalition.org.
Organized by the EHR Superusers Workgroup of the North Dakota Colorectal Cancer Roundtable. Recorded Events Using Population Health Management Tools for Quality Improvement Presenters: Jennifer Saueressig and Billie Jo Nelson, Community Healthcare Association of the Dakotas (CHAD) The population health tool Azara transforms healthcare data into actionable insights, but its effectiveness relies on accurate and reliable data.
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Goals and Objectives Educate others, both youth and adults, throughout North Dakota about the importance of staying safe in the sun. Theme (required) Participants must choose an appropriate subject/theme directly related to staying safe in the sun. This could include wearing sunscreen, a hat, sunglasses, and not going to tanning booths. Contest entrants may benefit
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North Dakota was well represented at the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable meeting! Attendees included: Dr. Jared Marquart, chair of the NDCCRT, Unity Medical Center (Grafton); Jesse Tran, co-lead of the NDCCRT; Jill Ireland, co-lead of the NDCCRT; Kari Novak and Kristen Pastorek, Unity Medical Center (Grafton); Nikki Medalen, Jonathan Gardner and Carolyne Tufte, Quality Health
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The ND Cancer Coalition Executive Committee has started to plan the 2025 annual meeting. We would like to know if you are interested in participating in the planning committee. If you are willing to volunteer, please respond to this survey by November 29th: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZRTLBMT . Thank you for everything you do every day to make North Dakota
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The North Dakota Cancer Coalition (NDCC) secured a state proclamation from Governor Doug Burgum to raise awareness for skin cancer during May, Skin Cancer Awareness Month. With over 5 million cases diagnosed in the United States each year, skin cancer is America’s most common cancer. More people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year in
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In observance of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month this March 2024, the North Dakota Cancer Coalition is sponsoring our 8th Annual Turn ND Blue Photo Contest. We are inviting YOU to help us make aBIG, BLUE splash across North Dakota. Education and awareness are key to improving CRC screening rates. That’s why we’re asking you to help us
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At the 2023 annual North Dakota Cancer Coalition (NDCC) meeting, members reflected on their perceived value of participating in the statewide cancer coalition by answering the questions: 1) What can you or your organizations give to the NDCC?, and 2) What do you or your organizations get from being part of the NDCC? Members see
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2023 Annual Meeting Presentations Making the Case for Assessing and Treating Tobacco Dependence in Cancer Patients | Rajean Backman Bismarck Cancer Center Tobacco Cessation | Corina Larson Survivorship Services at Roger Maris Cancer Center | Megan Rogers
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The North Dakota Cancer Coalition (NDCC) secured a state proclamation from Governor Doug Burgum to raise awareness for skin cancer during May, Skin Cancer Awareness Month. With over 5 million cases diagnosed in the United States each year, skin cancer is America’s most common cancer. More people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year in
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The month of May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month and provides the opportunity to focus on skin cancer prevention. The first Monday in May (May 1, 2023) is “Melanoma Monday”—a day created to call attention to the seriousness of melanoma and to encourage everyone to perform a skin self-exam. A young North Dakota man has
With what seemed like the winter that would never end, most North Dakotans are more than ready to get outside and enjoy summer activities. Whether it is working in the yard or watching a ballgame, it’s important to make sun safety an everyday habit to avoid getting a sunburn and lowering your chance of getting
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In June 2019, Courtney Pierce was still recovering from thyroid cancer surgery and treatment when a colonoscopy detected she had Stage 1 colon cancer. She was only 30 years old. “The news of another cancer didn’t seem real at first. I was in shock for a while,” states Courtney. She described her colon cancer treatment
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“I am too young for this.” That thought kept running through Mikisha Longie’s mind when she was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at the age of 44. Around June of 2021, Mikisha began experiencing symptoms—oddly formed/colored stool and pelvic and back pain. While these symptoms concerned her, she attributed the pain to a recent hysterectomy and
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The North Dakota Cancer Coalition (NDCC), a champion for improving prevention and screening for colorectal cancer, secured a state proclamation from Governor Doug Burgum to raise awareness for colorectal cancer during March, Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. NDCC is one of the thousands of advocates from across the United States who are raising awareness about the
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Colorectal cancer is the second most diagnosed and second leading cause of cancer death in North Dakota for men and women combined. It is often thought of as a disease that only affects older people. But the face of colorectal cancer is changing. Over the past four decades colorectal cancer has been steadily increasing in
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Prepared by Jon Gardner, Data Manager, ScreeND/Quality Health Associates of North Dakota Medicare’s Calendar Year 2023 Physician Fee Schedule[1] final rule[2], published November 1, 2022, contains some positive changes around colorectal cancer screening in support of the Biden Administration’s Cancer Moonshot program.[3] One of the goals addressed by this final rule is to reduce barriers and
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