A Glimpse Inside TACL

Our partners work together to change lives and improve cancer outcomes.

Our expert team works on:

  • Bringing community partners together to help prevent cancer deaths

  • Promoting screening in underserved communities

  • Decreasing screening disparities and increasing preventative care

  • Creating a centralized database to capture screening data

  • Bringing health plans together to find best practices

By working together we know we can:

  • Jointly study cancer and share our findings

  • Set standardized statewide performance goals

  • Learn from each other and establish best-practice guides for future success

  • Align healthcare, health insurance, government entities, and donors

What are TACL’s Goals?

We focus on increasing colorectal and breast cancer screenings through community awareness.

TACL’s Breast Cancer Goals:

  • Reduce mortality from breast cancer for women 40 and older

  • Increase adherence to evidence-based treatment protocols for those with breast cancer

  • Reduce late stage diagnosis for women 40 and older across all regions, race and ethnic groups

TACL’s Colorectal Cancer Goals:

  • Increase CRC screening for adults aged 50 - 75 based on screening methods accepted as evidence-based  

  • Reduce current racial and geographic disparities in screening for CRC 

  • Reduce current racial and geographic disparities to initiation of treatment for positive CRC diagnosis.   

  • Reduce mortality from colorectal cancer for adults age 50 and over.  

Proof that TACL’s efforts work

 Expanding Medicaid in Louisiana gave access to preventative healthcare to more residents. Through these expanded efforts, TACL recognized a unique opportunity to further expand access to care. 

The Louisiana Department of Health and Louisiana Medicaid conducted an analysis that demonstrates the positive impact of screening and early diagnosis. Data current as of September 2022 shows that through expanded efforts, 83,293 adults received colon cancer screening, 25,426 adults had colon polyps removed and colon cancers averted, and 1,155 adults were diagnosed with colon cancer as a result of this screening.

These efforts save the patients and their families pain, heartache, and potential loss of life.