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California Emerging Leaders Council

You can help end cancer as we know it by joining the Society of Emerging Leaders as a California student or young professional Ambassadors. Are you willing and able to activate on behalf of the Emerging Leaders Council on timely ACS CAN policy campaigns? Join us!

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California Priorities

Increasing Access to Biomarker Testing - SB912 (Limón)

California Cancer Care Equity Act - SB987 (Portantino)

Requesting a Budget Increase for the California Cancer Registry

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Aria Community Health Centers in the Central Valley Offer New Resources to Help Patients Quit Tobacco

January 19, 2023

California

Aria Community Health Center (ACHC) facilities across the Central Valley recently adopted a proactive referral system to better connect patients with the resources they need to quit tobacco use.  

Foro virtual en español ofrecerá información sobre los recursos para la detección temprana y el tratamiento del cáncer de seno

January 5, 2023

California

La Red de Acción contra el Cáncer de la Sociedad Americana contra el Cáncer (ACS CAN) invita a la comunidad del Valle Central a participar en un foro virtual con el fin de reducir el número de muertes a causa del cáncer de seno.

Law Ending the Sale of Most Flavored Tobacco Products in California to Take Effect Despite Big Tobacco’s Efforts to Block It

December 20, 2022

California

A California law ending the sale of menthol cigarettes and most other flavored tobacco products, takes effect on December 21 despite the tobacco industry’s attempts to stop its implementation. In 2020, the State Legislature passed the law aiming to reduce youth tobacco use initiation and address health disparities.

Supreme Court Rejects the Tobacco Industry’s Attempt to Stop California Law Ending the Sale of Most Flavored Tobacco Products from Taking Effect

December 12, 2022

California

A statement from Lisa Lacasse, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) in response to Justice Kagan’s denial of the tobacco industry’s request for a stay on the California law to end the sale of menthol cigarettes and most other flavored tobacco products.