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FROM; INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE Cwtra
November 28, 1988 C
DATE;
Follow Up to Bay Area Cancer Summit and Status
SUBJECT: Report on Prospective Study of the Incidence of
Cancer in Contra Costa County
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKIGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1 . Request the Health Services Director to determine which
individuals in the federal and state governments should be
approached about participating financially in the
prospective study of the incidence of cancer, and report
back to the 1989 Internal Operations Committee on this
matter, and more generally on the status of the study, in
June, 1989.
2 . Refer oversight on this issue to the 1989 Internal
Operations Committee for periodic report to the Board of
Supervisors.
3 . Remove this item as a referral to our Committee.
BACKGROUND-
Throughout 1988 our Committee has been following the prospective
study of the incidence of cancer in Contra Costa County and
follow-up activities to the very successful Bay Area Cancer
Summit which was held last spring.
In this, our Committee' s final status report on this subject, we
would like to note that Dr. Wendel Brunner has reported to us
that the Bay Area Cancer Coalition is meeting on a regular basis
and has organized into three major committees: the Nutrition
Committee, Tobacco Committee, and Epidemiological Committee. The
Epidemiological Committee is trying to develop funding from the
National Cancer Institute to study cancer trends in the Bay Area.
We have asked Dr. Brunner to determine at what level in the
National Cancer Institute decisions on funding are made and let
the 1989 Internal Operations Committee know who needs to be
contacted about . providing funding for such a study.
Dr. Brunner also noted that the Tumor Registry is continuing to
gather data although they do not generally publish or otherwise
use the data they are gathering. This data does present a
valuable resource for research purposes.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
_ RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR X RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
X APPRAE: OT(H,ER
SIGNATURnne W. McPeak TTom Torlakson
ACTION OF BOARD ON December 6, 1988 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HERE13Y CERTIFY THAT THIS 1S A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN' OF SUPERV I SORS�r1 ON THE DATE SHOWN.
cc: County Administrator ATTESTED
Health Services Director PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Wendel Brunner, M. D. SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
M382/7-83 Health Services Dept.
BY ,DEPUTY
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In terms of the prospective study, Dr. Brunner continued to
remind us that doing such a study is not something a single unit
of local government can realistically undertake, without
financial support and leadership from the state and federal
governments and the academic community. Dr. Brunner noted that
there is a great deal of disagreement among the professionals as
to what the correct approach is to this type of study. Dr.
Brunner is continuing to focus on the development of the data
base and continues to remind the state and federal governments
and the academic community that the public and private sectors in
Contra Costa County are interested in participating in such a
prospective study.
Dr. Brunner has become active in many organizations at the State
level which are addressing the problems of cancer in the Bay Area
and continues to press them for agreement on the process which
should be used and on the need for financial support to conduct a
study once agreement is reached on the process which should be
followed.
We believe that the 1989 Internal Operations Committee should
continue to receive periodic status reports from the Health
Services Department on this issue so they can, in turn, keep the
Board up-to-date on developments.