cartoon woman holding a cancer support sign

Action Center

Help ensure that people impacted by cancer have access to quality, comprehensive cancer care. Learn about opportunities to get involved in our advocacy work & make your voice heard.

Anyone who is passionate about making a difference in the lives of people impacted by cancer can be a cancer advocate. Your voice is critical to help policymakers know what is important to people living with and beyond cancer, and what matters to their loved ones.

Our Time To Act Is Now

Programs funding cancer care, research, and prevention are facing severe cuts. Here are quick & simple actions you can take now to support this critical funding:

Support Vital Medicaid Coverage

Help ensure Medicaid – a lifeline for over 70 million Americans, including pediatric cancer patients – continues to support vital services.

Protect Vital Coverage

Safeguard Life-Saving Research

Ask your members of Congress to oppose disruptive and harmful cuts to NIH funding that would stifle life-saving innovative medical research.

Protect Critical Research

Help Restore CDMRP Funding

Cuts to funding for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program will slow progress in cancer research and innovation.

Ask Congress to Restore Cuts

Support Cancer Prevention & Detection

An estimated 70% of cancer deaths are attributed to cancers that lack early detection screenings. Join us in advocating to increase access to preventative cancer screenings.

Support efforts to detect cancer & save more lives

Support Our Efforts

Improve access to hereditary cancer genetic testing

Help Us Improve Access

Ensure prostate cancer screening is accessible for high-risk men

Support Our Efforts

Protect Access to Needed Care

Efficient access to essential cancer care saves lives and decreases burdens placed on patients and their community. Join us in advocating to protect and expand access to care.

Support timely access to treatment

Support Safe Step Act

Help ensure lower patient copays

Help Lower Copays

Ensure cancer treatment is affordable

Support Affordable Cancer Treatment

Help ensure patients keep access to needed treatments

Support Access to Treatment in Pill Form

Improve Care Coverage

Every person deserves access to quality & affordable care. Join us in advocating to improve lives and increase care coverage for survivors, caregivers & vulnerable populations.

Remove barriers and increase participation in clinical trials

Expand Access to Clinical Trials

Support the health and unmet needs of cancer survivors

Support the Survivorship Act

Protect healthcare for seniors & people with disabilities

Help Protect Healthcare

Ensure telehealth services are available to all who need them

Support Telehealth

Learn About Cancer Advocacy

Cancer advocates work to educate the community and policymakers on important issues that affect people impacted by cancer. Watch these videos for an introduction to grassroots advocacy and ways you can make a difference.

Share Your Story to Raise Awareness

Want to help ensure that people impacted by cancer have access to quality, timely, and affordable healthcare? Sharing your own story can help raise awareness about concerns that need attention and action.

Stand Up for People Impacted by Cancer

It’s estimated that, as of January 2022, there were 18.1 million cancer survivors in the United States (National Cancer Institute). This year, an additional 2 million people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer (American Cancer Society).

Cancer disrupts the lives of our friends and loved ones, neighbors and colleagues, parents and families, children and their siblings. You can help. Together, we can ease the burden of this devastating disease.

Stand Up for People Impacted by Cancer