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Caucasian Union Against Cancer
UCCC
Aims
Caucasian Union Against Cancer (Union Caucasian Contra la Cancer - UCCC),
the non-governmental organization, according to legislative regulating rules - the Union, was organized on May 7, 2001 and registered on May 10, 2001, in Tbilisi.
The UCCC represents the non-governmental, non-political, non-religious, non-profit organization, with volunteer membership. The members could become representatives of different professions and organizations, who have the one aim - promotion of social protection of Caucasian population, their health promotion, cancer prevention, raise of mean life time, international intersectional integration, improvement of economical development, creation of Open Society.Due to realization of created Conception: "National Model of Cancer Prevention", Union will serve for cancer prevention in Caucasus, reglamentation of population exposure to carcinogenic agents, preparation of legislative basis and protection for environment, improvement of medical service and insurance system by fundraising efforts, implementation of new technologies and technical means, also systems of distant learning and diagnosis due to organization of Tele-medical consultations and Tele-conferences. The aims of the Union are concerned with working out of policy, strategy and tactic of scientific- and practical activities of cancer fight, which considers the organizational, methodological, scientific, preventive, educational, editorial, projective- and constructive, legislative and mediator activity.Union joins the representatives of following professions from Caucasus: oncologists, general practitioners, health care organizers, epidemiologists, radiologists, ecologists, hygienists, veterinarians, manufacturers, chemistries, physicists, statisticians, registrars, computer specialists, lawyers, economists, businessman, media specialists and all interested persons of different professions.
Goals
Organizational Goals:
To organize representative offices in Baki and Erevan,
To create the UCCC Web Site,
To create Caucasian Network of Cancer Control (CNCC: Tbilisi-Erevan-Baku)
To create Caucasian Network of Cancer Registries (CNCR: Tbilisi-Erevan-Baku)
To create Tele-morphology system: Tbilisi-Batumi
To create Tele-medicine system: Tbilisi-Erevan-Baku
To create Caucasian Tele-medical Consultation Board (CTC)
Methodological Goals:
To determine the common policy and strategy of Cancer Control in Caucasus region.
To work out the Caucasian Plan of Cancer Control.
To work out the common sanitary-hygienic standards in Caucasus region (to determine the maximally permissible content of tar and nicotine in tobacco production and dosage and concentration of each carcinogenic substances in environment).
To work out Cancer Notification Form according to recommendations of the International Association of Cancer Registries and to adopt it at the meeting of the Caucasian Association of Cancer Control.
Scientific Goals:
To determine priorities of scientific-research work.
To help coordinate scientific-research work.
To work out and adopt new methods, methodologies and technologies.
To finance preferable scientific works of the Union and its individual members on the basis of submitting written request and Union Expert decision.
To organize cooperated investigations (including international) according to programs and projects, to take orders for conducting scientific-research work based on contracts from different funds (as a grant), government and private structures.
To organize conferences, seminars and other scientific activities. To take part in analogous activities in foreign countries.
To organize scientific competitions and award the winners with prizes and other forms of rewards.
To conduct scientific competitions and to grants the winner projects.
To start creating the computer dBase of cancer incidence in Caucasus according to Cancer Notification Form, to process the dBase statistically, to prognosticate cancer incidence, to create and publish epidemiological maps of cancer incidence in Georgia (Caucasus) according to descriptive epidemiological studies.
To conduct cancer epidemiological research in Caucasus.
To evaluate the efficiency of cancer control programs in Caucasian countries.
Medical Goals:
To prepare and realize cancer screening and early detection programs in Caucasian countries
To coordinate Tele-medicine system Tbilisi-Erevan-Baku;
To coordinate Caucasian Tele-medical consultation board;
To organize distant screening of cancer in Caucasian countries and to evaluate its efficiency using Tele-medicine;
To evaluate and carry out monitory control of distant results of cancer treatment in Caucasian countries;
To help improve the efficiency of oncology patients medical service and to organize consultations with world-leader specialists;
To introduce new methods and technologies;
To help create the laboratories for determination the far and nicotine content in tobacco products;
To help create the laboratory for determination the dosage and concentration of chemical and radioactive carcinogenic substances in atmosphere and working place environment, soil, drinking water, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, food and etc.
Educational Goals:
To work out the educational programs for training the specialists in the field of cancer control.
To establish permanent advanced training courses in the field of cancer control (including joint courses together with educational institutions of foreign countries).
To prepare specialists in the field of cancer control at the different stages of their Pre-and-Post graduate training (residency, qualification courses, training at the work place, etc).
To set up special scientific council (in the field of cancer control), which will conduct certification of members according to the regulations adopted by the Union.
To conduct licensing and certification of Union members, to give them appropriate certificates.
To promote the training of scientific staff (post-graduate courses, conferences, symposiums, congresses, seminars and other scientific forums).
Propagandistic and Publishing Goals:
To place Caucasian Program of Cancer Control on Union's Home Page.
To place Epidemiological Maps of cancer incidence in Caucasian countries on Union's Home Page.
To rise the level of hygienic-sanitary knowledge of population by promoting healthy life style using TV, radio, press, etc.
To publish 10 modified recommendations concerning healthy life style and distribute booklets among the population in order to reduce cancer morbidity.
To publish monographs, textbooks, epidemiological maps, atlases, brochures, reports.
To publish magazine: "Cancer Epidemiology and Control in Caucasian countries".
To conduct advertising activity.
To control advertising in Mass media.
To popularize scientific achievements in oncology.
To review inventions.
To finance the publishing of important scientific works.
To conduct the lectures, seminars and training at work place.
Projective-and-Constructive Goals:
To plan the development of cancer services in different regions of Caucasus;
To help reconstruct and build cancer control offices;
To conduct scientific-research, experimental-constructive, projective and service work in a field of medicine.
Legislative Goals:
· To lobby the obligatory submission of Cancer Notification Form in the Health Care System of Caucasian Countries (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan);
To lobby the establishment of common hygienic-sanitary standards (standard of tar and nicotine permissible dosage and concentration of each carcinogenic substances in environment) in the Health Care System of Caucasian Countries (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan);
To prepare and lobby the bill in the Parliament of Caucasian countries, which will protect the environment (atmosphere, work place environment, Black Sea, flora, food) from the pollution by chemical and radioactive carcinogenic substances, biological agents (virus, bacteria, etc), put limit on their effect on population, set testing and certification on cancer risk for national, exported, imported products (food, tobacco product, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages), set up fines on cancer risk products;
To prepare and lobby the bill in the Parliament of Caucasian countries which will prohibit:
1. Tobacco smoking in state and non-state organizations and public places;
2. Advertising tobacco products (as a harmful narcotic substance for human organism), strong alcoholic beverages;
To prepare and lobby the bill in the Parliament of Caucasian countries which will prohibit advertising food, non-alcoholic beverages and other products without their testing on the content of carcinogenic agents;
To prepare and lobby the bill in the Parliament of Caucasian countries which will put Union control on advertising food, non-alcoholic beverages and other products.
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