2024 Oregon Cancer Action Day
In 2024, we’re continuing to make our cancer-fighting voices heard in Oregon.
Join us Monday, March 4th!
Join our team and volunteers from across Oregon in the fight for legislative solutions to reduce the burden of cancer in our community. This year, we are prioritizing the issues lawmakers skipped in 2024: flavored tobacco, and biomarker testing. We will meet with our lawmakers to insist that the next time they step into the Capitol, they must prioritize ending the sale of flavored tobacco products and pass comprehensive biomarker testing legislation.
You can learn more about our effort to end the sale of flavored tobacco at www.flavorshookoregonkids.org
You can learn more about biomarker testing and why it’s so important in the fight against cancer at our webpage here.
These two policies together will significantly reduce the burden of cancer in Oregon. By meeting with your lawmakers now, you will help ensure that our issues are a familiar priority in the 2025 long legislative session.
Never participated in a meeting with your lawmaker? Don’t worry! We will provide you with training and everything you will need to be successful.
All you need is passion to make an impact in the fight against cancer.
If you have any questions, please contact Kari Hampton, Oregon Grassroots Manager [email protected]
Please hold Tuesday, Feb. 27th, 5 - 7 PM PST, for our virtual pre-event training. Link will be forthcoming for folks who RSVP.
Are you worried at all about accessibility at the capitol? Please reach out to me with any needs you have. This event will be barrier free!
Covid Guidance
The health and safety of all our guests and participants is our number one goal. Please see below for important details which will continue to be updated based on our unique needs and review the COVID-19 Waiver.
If you are feeling sick or have been recently exposed to someone who recently tested positive for COVID-19, you should stay home. People who have underlying health conditions or taking medications that weaken the immune system, should talk to their healthcare provider before attending large gatherings.
RECOGNIZE COVID-19 SYMPTOMS
The CDC has identified the symptoms of a COVID-19 infection. If you have one or more of these symptoms on the day of the event, please stay home. If you are waiting for COVID-19 test results or have had close contact with a person who has tested positive for or who has COVID-19 symptoms, please stay home unless you get a negative test result before the event.
YOUR SAFETY IS OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY
The COVID-19 virus and its variants are highly contagious. Some people infected with these viruses get severely ill, become hospitalized or die. Event attendees acknowledge the risk of exposure to the COVID-19 virus, assume all such risk, and the American Cancer Society, Inc., and the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network shall not be held liable.
PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY
Help protect our community. it is strongly encouraged that individual attendees are vaccinated. All attendees are asked to have a negative COVID test within 48 hours of travel to the event. The wearing of face masks at the event may be required. After the event, please report to Kari Hampton at kari.hampton@cancer.org. If you later contract COVID-19 and believe you could have received or spread the virus at the event.