The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is sponsoring the Fight Back Express, a nationwide bus tour with the goal of building a grassroots movement united in its mission to make cancer a top national priority.
Our message: “If one person can battle cancer, a nation can rise up and defeat it.” The effort represents the largest grassroots mobilization campaign ever waged on the issue of cancer.

Description:
Cancer Action Network: A Grassroots Movement
• Frankly, our elected officials aren’t doing all they can. So it’s up to the citizens of this country – nearly every one of which has been touched by cancer -- to tell them to do more.
• If one person can fight cancer, then an entire nation can rise up to defeat it.
• Only a nationwide, grassroots movement -- organized, united and relentless in its mission -- can put cancer at the top of the nation’s agenda.

The Need for ACS CAN
• ACS CAN is that movement. A movement that will give ordinary people extraordinary power to fight back against cancer.
• ACS CAN is a movement that unites and empowers cancer patients, survivors, caregivers, and their families.
•ACS CAN is a movement waging, and winning, campaigns to:

• secure more research dollars
• expand access to early detection, prevention, and treatment
• reduce suffering from tobacco by working for a smokefree nation

History:
The Cancer Threat
• In 1971, America declared war on cancer. We have made a lot of progress since then, but science alone will not defeat cancer.
• Our government is an essential partner in this fight, perhaps the most crucial ally we have. But lately it seems to be beating a hasty retreat, leaving hundreds of thousands to die in its wake.
• More than 565,000 Americans will die of cancer in 2008 alone.

Contact people:

Brenda Jo Gillund, Program Coordinator, (218) 779-2095, (email) Brenda Jo Gillund, Program Manager, (701) 772-6618, (email)

Office fax number: (701) 780-1729

Address:

8 South 3rd Street Grand Forks, ND 58201 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.acscan.org/bus

Directions:

Town Square and Porpoura Downtown The Bus will be parked next to Town Square