Community Engagement
This process focuses on building trust, learning from community members, and collaborating to improve health outcomes.
What is community engagement?
This habit is a leading preventable risk factor for lung cancer
What is smoking?
This is the most common answer when asked how to protect one's skin from the sun
What is sunscreen?
One half is unlike the other half
What is Asymmetry?
The family pledged $100 million in 1995 to help establish the Huntsman Cancer Institute
Who are Jon M. and Karen Huntsman (The Huntsman Family)?
This program brings cancer screenings and education directly to rural and underserved communities, helping people overcome barriers to care.
What is mobile cancer screening?
Participating in a form of this for 30 minutes at least 5 days a week can help to lower someone's risk of cancer
Physical exercise
These two accessories are an effective way to protect your skin from the sun
What is Sunglasses and a Hat?
Irregular, scalloped, or poorly defined
What is Border?
This Utah college is home to Huntsman Cancer Institute's research facilities and cancer hospital.
This team at HCI helps educate people in the community about cancer, provides access to screenings and resources, and brings cancer research to communities.
What is the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement Team (COE)?
Skipping these can increase the chance that cancer is found at a later, harder-to-treat stage.
What are cancer screenings?
Limiting your risk of skin cancer includes avoiding this common indoor UV source
What is tanning beds or sun lamps?
Varied shades from one area to another; can be tan, brown, or black
What is Color?
Huntsman Cancer Institute serves patients across these five states
What is Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Wyoming?
This type of collaboration between HCI, healthcare providers, and community organizations helped provide more than 250 skin exams at Grand Teton National Park, leading to the early detection of two melanomas.
What are community partnerships?
These communities often face higher cancer risks due to limited access to screening, healthcare, and prevention resources.
What are rural communities?
One simple way to reduce UV exposure is to wear this instead of a short-sleeved shirt and shorts when spending time outdoors
What is a long sleeve shirt and long pants?
Whilemelanomas aretypically greaterthan 6mm (thesize of a pencileraser) whendiagnosed, theycan be smaller
What is Diameter?
These traveling clinics bring mammograms and cancer education to communities throughout Utah.
What is are the Mobile Cancer Screening and Education Clinics?
These financial resources help uninsured, underinsured, and low-income individuals access breast, cervical, colorectal, and lung cancer screenings.
What are cancer screening vouchers?
These three factors increase skin cancer risk for Utahns
What is high elevation, fair skin, and outdoor lifestyles?
Sun rays are strongest during this time of day
What happens between 10am and 4pm?
Mole or skin lesion that is changing in size, shape, or color
What is Evolving?
Huntsman Cancer Institute has discovered more of these for inherited cancers than any other cancer center in the world.
What are inherited cancer genes or genetic mutations?