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Share Your Cancer Story With Us

Do you have a personal story about how cancer has impacted you or someone you love? Your lawmakers are overwhelmed with numbers and studies. What they need most are stories about people - real people in their own community or district.

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Tell Alabama lawmakers to support smoke-free air

This year, secondhand smoke will cause nearly 42,000 deaths nation-wide among nonsmokers and an estimated 8,600 Alabamians will die from smoking-related illness.We need to protect Alabama workers from the dangers of secondhand smoke!

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Alabama Priorities

Adequate State Funding for Tobacco Prevention and Control

Expand Funding for Screening Programs to Reduce Cancer in Alabama

Help Improve Quality of Life for Cancer Patients

Promote Healthy Eating Active Living

Protect the Right to Breathe Smoke-free Air

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2020 Alabama Legislative Session Summary

May 26, 2020

Alabama

The 2020 Alabama legislative session convened in February but was interrupted after a global pandemic swept through the state. Cancer doesn’t stop and neither does the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). Advocates worked with the Alabama Legislature to appropriate over $1 million for cancer initiatives and in

Survey: COVID-19 Affecting Patients’ Access to Cancer Care

April 15, 2020

Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi

Cancer patients and those who’ve recently completed treatment are finding it challenging to get necessary health care in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and many are experiencing financial stress trying to afford care in an increasingly difficult economic environment.

Alabama Residents Struggling to Find Adequate Health Care Featured in New Documentary Released Yesterday

November 14, 2019

Alabama

The struggle to find access to adequate health care was the subject of a new documentary, “On the Edge: Health Care in Alabama” , by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) that premiered to a packed house in Birmingham’s Sidewalk Cinema last night.

Statement on Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s Lung Cancer Diagnosis

September 20, 2019

Alabama

T he American Cancer Society and American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network released a statement about Alabama’s Gov. Kay Ivey being diagnosed with lung cancer:

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November 12, 2020

2020 ACS CAN Policy Forum in Alabama

Please join us on November 12, 2020 for a discussion about the barriers to quality care in Alabama. We will bring together key leaders and decision makers in government, medical research, cancer prevention and control professionals, researchers, advocates and health care leaders to discuss emerging health care policy issues that...

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