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Guest Post: Take it from me, get your colonoscopy!
Amy Golder-Cooper is a dedicated volunteer advocate for ACS CAN in Pennsylvania, and a proud colorectal cancer survivor. After her courageous battle with the disease, she is determined to tell anyone who will listen about the importance of getting screened for colorectal cancer. I asked if she would share her inspiring story with my readers this National Colorectal Cancer Awareness ... represents why we are working so hard to ensure all people have access to lifesaving, recommended colorectal cancer screenings at little or no cost. My name is Amy Golder-Cooper, and I am 1 year post-surgery for colorectal cancer. Just before I turned 50, the irritable bowel symptoms that ...
New FDA Anti-Tobacco Education Campaign Launches on World Cancer Day
... make our voices heard as we raise awareness about the need to make the fight to defeat cancer an international priority. Continuing the success of last year's campaign , the theme of this year's World Cancer Day is once again dispelling myths and misconceptions related to cancer. Therefore, ... according to the FDA, 10 million youth ages 12-17 are open to smoking or have already experimented with it. Beginning Feb. 11, the FDA's Real Cost campaign is designed to target these 10 million at-risk youth and educate them about the dangers of tobacco use and to encourage them to be ... the most effective ways to fight back against an unscrupulous and unrelenting industry whose mission is to hook youth as early as possible. ACS CAN fought hard for the FDA's authority to regulate tobacco products, and we're pleased to see that the agency is exercising that authority for ...
World No Tobacco Day: Let's Combat Illicit Trade with Strong Tobacco Control Policies
May 31 is “World No Tobacco Day” – an annual event organized by the World Health Organization to highlight the health dangers of tobacco use and tobacco control policies that help people quit. The focus of this year’s World No Tobacco Day is global collaboration to end the illicit trade of tobacco products. Research finds the illicit market for ... trade isn’t as rampant in the U.S. as it is elsewhere in the world, our country has more work to do to pass strong tobacco control laws that can also help combat illicit trade. For example, the average state cigarette tax is only $1.54 and the federal cigarette tax is a meager $1.01. ...
A Decade After FDA Authorized to Regulate Tobacco, the Epidemic Rages On
... Drug Administration (FDA) was given the mandate from Congress to fully regulate the tobacco industry and tasked with the critical responsibility of protecting the health of our nation. And still, the FDA has not fulfilled its mission to reduce the deadly toll of tobacco use, an epidemic that ... death in our nation, and according to a U.S. Surgeon General report, more than 20 million premature deaths over the past half century can be attributed to cigarette use in the U.S. We cannot achieve our mission of ending death and suffering from cancer without significantly ... the FDA has taken deliberate action in the past 10 years to address tobacco addiction, including: Implementing several phases of “The Real Cost” prevention campaign aimed at reducing the number of youth who experiment with cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and, most recently, ...
Guest Post: Why Health Care Policy is Personal
It's my pleasure to share the following guest blog from David Weis, an ACS CAN volunteer, cancer survivor and recent graduate of Georgetown University. David currently resides in New York City where he is beginning a career in investment banking at Stifel Nicolaus Weisel. David is one of three courageous ACS CAN volunteers sharing his personal story to raise awareness about the importance of funding for research at the National ...