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In February 1984, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives Gib Lewis appointed the 52-member Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas (LTFCT). During the first seven months of activity (Phase I), the Task Force was organized into an Executive Committee and six regional committees; it held public hearings around the state which compiled information and received recommendations, and developed a short-term plan to meet immediate needs to lessen the burden of cancer in Texas. In November 1984, the Task Force entered Phase II, to develop a long-range plan for cancer. It reorganized into the Executive Committee, five major functional committees, and six technical workgroups. The Physician Education and Nurse Education Workgroups emerged from the Professional Education Committee; the Public Education Workgroup from the Public Education Committee; the Clinical Investigation Workgroup from the Cancer Study Committee; and the Community Cancer Care and Oncology Workgroups from the Resources and Services Committee. This last Oncology Workgroup was composed of eight anatomical site-specific subgroups to develop optimal cancer care guidelines for breast, colorectal, gynecologic, head and neck, hematologic, lung, pediatric, and urologic cancers. Each of the workgroups established a workplan, reviewed literature, conducted inventories and surveys, compiled and analyzed data, and made recommendations. A total of 355 volunteers ultimately participated in the work of the Task Force. Workgroups presented their final reports and recommendations in June 1986, and the final report of the Task Force was published November 1986.
Effective September 1, 1985, the Texas Legislature created the 16-member Texas Cancer Council, administratively attached to the Texas Department of Health (Senate Bill 53, 69th Texas Legislature, Regular Session). The mandate of the Council was to work with the Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas to implement, monitor and update the Texas Cancer Plan; to promote the coordination of effective and efficient statewide public and private policies, programs, and services for persons with cancer; and to encourage cooperative planning among the public, private, and volunteer sectors in cancer research, prevention, and treatment. The Speaker of the House named James D. Dannenbaum (already Chairman of the Legislative Task Force) as Chairman of the Council. As Secretary, the Council named Dr. Joseph T. Painter, (Staff Director of the Legislative Task Force and Vice-President of the University of Texas System Cancer Center). Half of the members of the Council were appointed by the Speaker of the House, the other half by the Lieutenant Governor. Members included one state representative, one state senator, the chairman of the Texas Board of Human Services, the chairman of the Texas Board of Health, four physicians active in the treatment of cancer, two representatives of voluntary health organizations interested in cancer, two representatives of a public or private hospital involved in cancer treatment, and four members of the general public.
The Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas was created to develop a Texas Cancer Plan, involving both a short-term plan (Phase I) and ultimately a long-range plan (Phase II), to lessen the burden of cancer in Texas. These records document that function. Types of records are correspondence and memoranda (including reading files of outgoing correspondence); meetings files (with agenda, minutes, summaries, testimony, and other meetings materials); subject files (containing reports, publications, mailing lists, legislation, organization charts, budget documents, press releases, maps, charts and tables, curriculum material, surveys and questionnaires, computer printouts, coding lists and other forms of computer documentation, forms, notes, etc., as well as correspondence and some meetings materials); and subcommittee, committee, and workgroup files (containing most of the previous types of materials). The records date 1974-1988, bulk 1984-1986.
The subjects covered by these records include the detection, prevention, and treatment of cancer; cancer education (both professional and public); the impact of cancer on citizens; cancer statistics; and government policies towards cancer (regionally in Texas and also throughout the United States--both state policies and federal policies). Correspondents include members of the Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas, LTFCT staff members, presenters of reports at Task Force meetings, other government officials and personnel, organizations concerned with the various aspects of cancer, and interested parties.
The researcher should be aware that the records were received in a generally disorganized state, and that the arrangement may involve misfiles. To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.
The records are organized into five series by State Archives staff:
(Identify the item and cite the series), Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas records. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
These records were appraised to be archival by the Director of the Texas State Archives on April 18, 1990. Subsequently the following portions were appraised to be nonarchival, and were destroyed: budget materials, personnel files for seven employees, and medical records for one patient.
Tony Black, November 1990
Accession number: 1990/143
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the University of Texas' M. D. Anderson Cancer Center on May 25, 1990.
The Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas was created to develop a Texas Cancer Plan, involving both a short-term plan (Phase I) and ultimately a long-range plan (Phase II), to lessen the burden of cancer in Texas. This series consists of reading copies of outgoing letters and memoranda, with some of the attachments (especially mailing lists), produced by the Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas between February 1984 and September 1987. Most were on Task Force letterhead, with an occasional item on the letterheads of the University of Texas System Cancer Center and the Texas Cancer Council. The majority of this material was signed either by Joseph T. Painter, M.D. (Staff Director), or by James D. Dannenbaum (Chairman of the Task Force), but additional items bear the signatures of Assistant Staff Director Owen McCrory, Administrative Director Jeanette Brooks, or various Staff Assistants. The correspondence was addressed to members of the Task Force, presenters, and other interested parties.
These records are arranged by State Archives staff chronologically, and within each wallet in roughly reverse chronological order.
(Identify the item), Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas reading files. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
The Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas was created to develop a Texas Cancer Plan, involving both a short-term plan (Phase I) and ultimately a long-range plan (Phase II), to lessen the burden of cancer in Texas. This series consists of files documenting the following types of meetings of the Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas (1984-1986): full Task Force meetings, Executive Committee meetings, Statewide Public Hearings, staff meetings, meetings with Chairman of the Legislative Task Force James (Jim) D. Dannenbaum, general workgroup meetings, briefings with Speaker of the House Gib Lewis, and the final presentation to Speaker Lewis. Also represented are meetings of the Texas Cancer Council (1985-1987). Meetings of specific committees and workgroups of the Legislative Task Force are found in other series described in the finding aid.
The types of documents contained in these meetings files include meeting schedules/timetables, agenda, minutes, meeting summaries, records of attendance and/or absence, charges, lists of topics, presentations, statements, testimony, correspondence, membership/mailing lists, organization charts, maps, legislative summaries, reports, recommendations, etc. Overall dates are 1984-1987.
These records are arranged by State Archives staff first by type of meeting, then chronologically. For the statewide Public Hearing (June 12, 1984), folders are established for topics.
(Identify the item), Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas meetings files. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
The Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas was created to develop a Texas Cancer Plan, involving both a short-term plan (Phase I) and ultimately a long-range plan (Phase II), to lessen the burden of cancer in Texas. This series consists of alphabetical subject files maintained by the Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas for both administrative and research purposes. Types of documents contained in these files include correspondence (incoming and outgoing) and memoranda (on the letterhead of both the Legislative Task Force and the University of Texas System Cancer Center); reports (both narrative and statistical); brochures, newsletters, manuals, journal articles, newspaper clippings, and other publications; copies of legislation and litigation; mailing lists and membership lists; organization charts; budget documents; press releases; maps; charts and tables; interagency agreements; bylaws; transparencies and other curricula material; surveys and questionnaires; computer printouts, coding lists and other forms of computer documentation; forms; notes and workpapers; agenda, minutes, summaries, presentations, testimony, and other materials from meetings other than those of the Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas, its committees and workgroups, and the Texas Cancer Council (which are represented in three other series described in this finding aid); etc. Overall dates are 1976-1988.
Of particular interest (because they are more substantive) are the groups of files with the following general subject headings: the American Cancer Society, the American College of Surgeons, budget, the (Statewide) Cancer Registry, (miscellaneous) correspondence, the Impact of Cancer on Texas (from the Interagency Center for Cancer Prevention and Control), the (Task Force on) Indigent Health Care, legislation, organization, press releases, smoking, the Speakers Bureau, (other) states, the Statewide Health Coordinating Council, the Texas Cancer Plan, the Texas Hospital Association, the University of Texas System Cancer Center, and vital statistics.
These records are arranged by State Archives staff alphabetically.
(Identify the item), Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas subject files. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
The Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas was created to develop a Texas Cancer Plan, involving both a short-term plan (Phase I) and ultimately a long-range plan (Phase II), to lessen the burden of cancer in Texas. This series consists of administrative files of each of the six regional subcommittees which functioned during Phase I of the work of the Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas. These subcommittee were the Central, Gulf Coast, North Central, Northeast, Valley, and West Texas Regional Subcommittees. Types of documents contained in these files include regional subcommittee membership lists, members' profiles (including resumes), subcommittee charges, correspondence (incoming and outgoing), hearing notices, agenda, minutes, summaries of meetings/hearings, witness registration forms, presentations, written testimony, transcripts, reports, summaries of recommendations, notes, forms, maps, etc. Of particular interest are surveys analyzing current resources (active programs, facilities, and manpower), gaps in resources and programs, recommendations, and intermediate-term plans of action for about 18 topics. Overall dates are 1979-1987.
During Phase II of the Legislative Task Force's existence, the Valley Cancer Care Workgroup (or more accurately, sub-workgroup) operated as a unique entity under the Community Cancer Care Workgroup. Those Phase II materials are here included with Phase I materials of the Valley Regional Subcommittee.
These records are arranged by State Archives staff alphabetically by regional subcommittee.
(Identify the item), Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas regional subcommittee files. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
The Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas was created to develop a Texas Cancer Plan, involving both a short-term plan (Phase I) and ultimately a long-range plan (Phase II), to lessen the burden of cancer in Texas. This series consists of administrative files of each of the five functional committees, and especially of their component workgroups and subgroups, which accomplished the work of Phase II of the Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas. Types of documents contained in these files include committee/workgroup membership lists, committee/workgroup charges, correspondence (incoming and outgoing), memoranda, timetables, agenda, minutes, summaries of meetings/hearings, reports, recommendations and summaries of recommendations, brochures, journal articles, other publications, curriculum materials, course announcements, questionnaires, surveys (including raw data plus some summaries), computer printouts, floppy disks, computer program documentation, notes, forms, maps, etc. Overall dates are 1974-1987.
The following chart explains the organizational scheme of Phase II:
1. Private Sector Initiatives Committee (no workgroup)
2. Professional Education Committee:
(A) Physician Education Workgroup and
(B) Nurse Education Workgroup
3. Public Education Committee (Public Education Workgroup)
4. Cancer Study Committee (Clinical Investigation Workgroup)
5. Resources and Services Committee
(A) Community Cancer Care Workgroup and
(B) Oncology Workgroups (Site Specialties):
(1) Breast Oncology Workgroup,
(2) Colorectal Oncology Workgroup,
(3) Gynecology Oncology Workgroup,
(4) Head and Neck Oncology Workgroup,
(5) Hematology Oncology Workgroup,
(6) Lung Oncology Workgroup,
(7) Pediatric Oncology Workgroup, and
(8) Urology Oncology Workgroup.
These records are arranged by State Archives staff by committee/workgroup, according to the organizational scheme included in the series description.
(Identify the item), Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas Phase II committee and workgroup files. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
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