Take Part in the Global Conversation about Cancer

A message from the LAF Grassroots team:

All of us have been affected by cancer in some way. That’s why we’re all part of this global movement to end this disease. In order to truly make an impact, we need to get people around the world talking. That’s why we’re asking YOU to take part in the global conversation about cancer.

In an unprecedented collaboration, the Campaign to Control Cancer, the Lance Armstrong Foundation and the International Union Against Cancer have joined forces to issue a global call to action—the urgent need to Go Public. As publics organize and mobilize like never before, the time is right to create a new social climate about cancer control—one that engages the public in support of a new global response to cancer.

Go Public: the first-ever Global Community Conversations on Cancer Control invites people everywhere to come together and take part in a groundbreaking series of informal yet crucial conversations about cancer and cancer control.

Starting February 4, 2009 (World Cancer Day), hundreds of conversations began to take place around the world between people whose lives have been touched by cancer in many different ways: oncologists, radiologists, nurses, researchers, patients, survivors, family members and many others. Held in boardrooms, living rooms, kitchens and community centers worldwide, these people-powered conversations, which anyone can host, will help shape the agenda of the Global Leadership Forum for Cancer Control (taking place in Ottawa, Canada, in September 2009). The Forum is dedicated to understanding and harnessing the power of public engagement in bringing about change for cancer control.

Learn more about this exciting opportunity and how you can have a community conversation on cancer.

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