Cancer coalition partners – and stakeholders not participating in the coalition – may have expressed concern about exposures to specific environmental and occupational toxicants occurring within your state. How could these concerns be addressed in your state cancer control plan? Answering this question requires understanding current environmental issues and data in your state. 

This Module provides data and information resources, including environmental health tracking data, to help you and your state cancer coalition better understand the nature of potential environmental and occupational cancer risks in your state. But before digging into this surveillance data, it is important to take a systems perspective to understand the dynamics influencing environmental cancer risks. This may inform additional data needs to best target intervention opportunities.

Module 3 offers scientific evidence sources to help decide if concerns identified through surveillance data and stakeholder input from Module 2 require action, based on how well the evidence links these exposures to a higher risk of cancer.