Montana

That’s right, our 2021 Cancer Action Week will be a virtual week of action right from the comfort of your home. Our Cancer Week of Action will kick off with the exciting and familiar feature highlight of meeting with lawmakers to advance our cancer fighting priorities. The week will include opportunities to engage in social media activities, listen to issue experts and advocates, learn from teens about being targets of big tobacco and more.

Join our efforts to to update Montana’s smoke-free law to include e-cigarettes, raise the price of all tobacco products including e-cigarettes, and increase tobacco prevention funding to help people who want to quit be successful.

Over and over again, we hear from lawmakers, donors and other volunteers that the stories make the biggest difference in their decision to support ACS CAN and our advocacy. Your story is critical in helping us continue to save lives in the fight against cancer.

Did you know that seniors are more likely to receive a cancer diagnosis? That’s a fact, and the Legislative Finance Committee met this week to discuss potential budget cuts, many of those on the backs of our those with catastrophic disease. Crucial and important programs are in jeopardy for both...

Did you know there are more cancer survivors on Earth than ever? But if you’re like me, you know surviving a cancer diagnosis and the treatment that follows is a difficult endeavor. Through palliative care living longer after diagnosis can be made easier. Palliative care is specialized treatment that helps...

ACS CAN supports legislative and regulatory initiatives at all levels of government to protect the public from increased skin cancer risk associated with exposure to ultraviolet radiation emitted by indoor tanning facilities. More specifically, based on a review of the best science currently available, ACS CAN supports initiatives that would...