Public Comment - Healthy People 2020

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Objectives Retained As Is From Healthy People 2010
C HP2020–1:	Reduce the overall cancer death rate.
C HP2020–2:	Reduce the lung cancer death rate.
C HP2020–3:	Reduce the female breast cancer death rate.
C HP2020–4:	Reduce the death rate from cancer of the uterine cervix.
C HP2020–5:	Reduce the colorectal cancer death rate.
C HP2020–6:	Reduce the oropharyngeal cancer death rate.
C HP2020–7:	Reduce the prostate cancer death rate.
C HP2020–8:	Reduce the rate of melanoma cancer.
C HP2020–9:	Increase provider counseling about cancer prevention.
C HP2020–10:	Increase the number of central, population-based registries from the 50 States and the District of Columbia that capture case information on at least 95 percent of the expected number of reportable cancers.
C HP2020–11:	Increase the proportion of cancer survivors who are living 5 years or longer after diagnosis.

Objectives Retained But Modified From Healthy People 2010
C HP2020–12:	Reduce the rate of sunburn.
C HP2020–13:	Increase physician counseling about currently recommended screening for colorectal cancer (CRC).
C HP2020–14:	Increase the proportion of women aged 18 years and older who receive a cervical cancer screening based on the most recent guidelines.
C HP2020–15:	Increase the proportion of adults who receive a colorectal cancer screening based on the most recent guidelines.
C HP2020–16:	Increase the proportion of women aged 40 years and older who have received a breast cancer screening based on the most recent guidelines.

Objectives New to Healthy People 2020
C HP2020–17:	(Developmental) Increase the proportion of cancer survivors who report physical health-related quality of life similar to the general population.
C HP2020–18:	Decrease incidence of invasive colorectal cancer.
C HP2020–19:	Decrease incidence of invasive uterine cervical cancer.
C HP2020–20:	Decrease incidence of late-stage disease breast cancer.
C HP2020–21:	Increase the proportion of men who have discussed with their health care provider whether or not to have a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test to screen for prostate cancer.


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