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URGENT: Ask Your Senator to Protect Colorectal Cancer Screening Funding!

Ask your Senator to support $300,000 in the budget bill for colorectal cancer screenings & diagnostic services!

in 2019: Ask Your Senator to Protect Colorectal Cancer Screening Funding

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Thank Your Senator for Including Life-Saving Colorectal Cancer Screening Funding in the 2019 Budget!

Please take a moment to thank your Senator for including $150,000 for colorectal cancer screenings and diagnostic services for low income Hoosiers in the 2019 state budget!

IN 2019: Thank Your Senator for Including Funding for Colorectal Cancer Screenings in the Budget!

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URGENT: Indiana is on the Road to 50th in the Nation

If we don't act to change course quickly, Indiana will soon be 50th in the nation for our health rankings. We can take a huge step in the right direction by increasing the tax on packs of cigarettes by $2 - but you Senator has to hear from you.

IN 2019: URGENT: Indiana Is On The Road To 50th

Indiana Priorities

Increase Tobacco Prevention & Cessation Funding

Improve Access to Care

Increase Indiana's Cigarette Tax Rate

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Indiana State Lead Ambassador

November 26, 2018

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Mary Kost Mary Kost has been involved with ACS CAN since 2010 and with ACS since 1998. She has been recognized five times for her exemplary volunteer work, both locally and regionally. Mary is a commercial lines insurance manager and also volunteers with the Angels of Hope Cancer Support

Report: Indiana Falling Short on Policies to Reduce Cancer Incidence, Death from Tobacco Use

August 9, 2018

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Indiana falls short when it comes to implementing policies and passing legislation to reduce cancer incidence and death from tobacco use, according to the latest edition of “How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality.” The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network released the report today.

House Kills Bill to Fight Youth Addiction, Improve Health

January 30, 2018

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Today, the Indiana House of Representatives sidelined a bill that would have increased the minimum age of tobacco sales from 18 to 21 years old. Bryan Hannon, chair of Tobacco Free Indiana, released the following statement in response:

Columbus, IN ACS CAN Volunteer Takes Cause to the Capitol

October 16, 2017

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Columbus, Ind. - October 4, 2017 Local cancer volunteer takes cause to the capitol By Staff Reports - 10/4/17 12:42 AM Columbus resident Misty Derringer has helped the American Cancer Society for 12 years as a volunteer, but in September she took on a new role that involved traveling

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October 3, 2019

Indianapolis, IN

Policy Prescriptions for Indiana's Cancer Burden

Indiana has the seventh highest cancer death rate in the country, meaning nearly 14,000 Hoosiers will lose their life to cancer in 2019. Many of these cancer cases are preventable, but Indiana is doing a poor job of implementing prevention and early detection strategies. Join us for a roundtable discussion...

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