PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, cancer registrars help health care professionals better meet the needs of patients with cancer by collecting and maintaining data on people diagnosed with this disease; and

WHEREAS, data collected by cancer registrars is used by physicians to monitor treatment and continuing care of patients, and by epidemiologists to track the cancer activity throughout Arizona and the nation; and

WHEREAS, cancer registrars in Arizona are committed to promoting the latest medical advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer; and

WHEREAS, National Cancer Registrars Week recognizes the contributions that professional cancer registrars make to the field of allied health with the theme “Cancer Registrars: Hidden Jewels of Cancer Care.”

NOW, THEREFORE, 1, Douglas A. Ducey, Governor of the state of Arizona, do hereby designate April 9 – 13, 2018, as

CANCER REGISTRARS WEEK

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 1 have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Arizona

Douglas A. Ducey

GOVERNOR

DONE at the Capitol in Phoenix on this thirtieth day of March in the year Two Thousand and Eighteen and of the Independence of the United States ofAmerica the Two Hundred and Forty-Second. ATTEST:

Michele Reagan

SECRETARY OF STATE