AICAF’s Cancer Equity Program aims to reduce the cancer burdens on Native people by increasing cancer screening and early detection rates across Indian Country.
Program staff focuses their efforts on raising awareness of many common cancers faced by Indigenous people through cancer awareness campaigns that promote screening, culturally tailored resources, cancer coalition, training, and media tools, community education and outreach activities, and collaboration with clinics to help build capacity and improve tribal health systems. While our mission is to eliminate all types of illness in our communities, AICAF prioritizes the cancers that are most prevalent among AI/AN people. The team centers most projects around these topics: breast, cervical, colorectal, lung, and oral cancers, and HPV immunization.
While it is our mission to eliminate all types of illness in our communities,
AICAF prioritizes the cancers that are most prevalent among our
people, specifically breast, colorectal, cervical, and lung cancer.
Click on the boxes below to learn more about each priority cancer and find out which screening is right for you.