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Prevent Cancer Advocacy Workshop explores cancer screening disparities in the LGBTQ+ community

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Kyra Meister   703-836-1746   kyra.meister@preventcancer.org    Alexandra, Va. – The Prevent Cancer Foundation® will host its annual Advocacy Workshop virtually…

Prevent Cancer Health Fair and 5k Walk/Run makes its return in person to Nationals Park

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Kyra Meister   703-836-1746   kyra.meister@preventcancer.org    Alexandra, Va. – The Prevent Cancer Foundation® will host its annual Health Fair and…

Alarming new study shows pandemic is disrupting cancer screenings.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kyra Meister 703-836-1746 kyra.meister@preventcancer.org Alexandria, Va. – After two years of navigating the coronavirus pandemic, Americans’ health care routines continue to be…

Prevent Cancer Foundation awards $250,000 to community programs throughout the U.S.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MEDIA CONTACT: Lisa Berry Edwards 703-519-2107 Lisa.Edwards@preventcancer.org ALEXANDRIA, Va. – To advance the Prevent Cancer Foundation’s bold goal to reduce cancer deaths…

A year+ into COVID, Americans are getting cancer screenings “Back on the Books”

BACK ON BOOKS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lisa Berry Edwards Lisa.Edwards@preventcancer.org 703-519-2107 As more Americans are vaccinated against the coronavirus, their comfort in going…

Prevent Cancer Foundation leads more than 300 organizations in support of the Medicare Multi-Cancer Screening Coverage Act of 2021

  Media Contact Lisa Berry Edwards Lisa.Edwards@preventcancer.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Prevent Cancer Foundation® and more than 300 organizations from all 50 states applaud Representative Terri…

Cancer screening 101

This post was updated in March 2021 to reflect new lung cancer screening guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.  Women In your 50s…

Congressional Families Program member LeeAnn Johnson hosts Cancer Prevention Day

On November 2, Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program® Executive Council member LeeAnn Johnson (spouse of Rep. Bill Johnson, Ohio), in collaboration with Memorial Health System…

Power. Progress. Prevention. May 26, 2017

Power. Progress. Prevention. The Foundation’s Advocacy Newsletter May 26, 2017 CBO projections of latest health care bill are bad news for prevention programs The Congressional…

ICYMI: May 19, 2017

Feature Story A Shocking Diagnosis: Breast Implants ‘Gave Me Cancer’ SUNDAY, May 14, 2017 (The New York Times) — Raylene Hollrah was 33, with a…