About COCAP

The California Department of Public Health's Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (CCCP), in collaboration with the California Dialogue on Cancer, administers the California Ovarian Cancer Awareness Program (COCAP).

Background: California’s Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (CCCP) functions as a collaborative process through which our state pools resources together to reduce the burden of cancer, resulting in risk reduction, early detection, better treatment, and enhanced survivorship.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides funding for our program to accomplish the following objectives: to establish a comprehensive cancer control coalition (called the California Dialogue on Cancer or CDOC); to assess the burden of cancer in our state; to determine priorities; and to develop and implement a statewide Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan.  Since its initiation, the CCCP and CDOC have developed and released California’s Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan in 2004,  secured additional funding for skin cancer and colorectal cancer efforts in 2005, and secured the next 5-year round of funding for the CCCP as well as additional funds for skin cancer, colorectal cancer, and ovarian cancer efforts (COCAP) in 2007.  

Brief Description of Program
COCAP is an ovarian cancer awareness program targeting women and health care providers in California. The goals of the program aim to promote education around the symptoms of ovarian cancer, increase early diagnosis and improved treatment methods in order to reduce mortality from ovarian cancer.
COCAP Goals
  • Increase awareness of ovarian cancer by both health care providers and community members.
  • Reduce ovarian cancer mortality through early diagnosis and improved treatment methods, including clinical trials.
COCAP Activities
  • Educate healthcare providers through training workshops/Continuing Medical Education (CME) on current diagnostic recommendations for women presenting with potential early symptoms of ovarian cancer.
  • Fund awards to community-based organizations to implement healthcare provider trainings or community education in local communities throughout the state.
  • Disseminate patient education materials (including early symptoms of ovarian cancer, treatment recommendations and clinical trials information) throughout the state. 
  • Collaborate with statewide agencies, groups and organizations to reach women at risk for ovarian cancer.

COCAP Staff  

Core Planning Group

Stakeholders

COCAP Partners