ACS CAN Teams Up with NFL
On October 20, ACS CAN teamed up with the National Football League (NFL) for a Breast Cancer Awareness Month event on Capitol Hill. As you may know, the NFL has been working with the Society on the “Crucial Catch Campaign” which encourages women to get annual mammograms starting at age 40. Representative Donna F. Edwards (D-MD) hosted the event. Speakers included Washington Redskins Guard Derrick Dockery, whose mother is a breast cancer survivor; Dockery’s wife Emma, who lost her mother to the disease; Breast cancer survivor and Crucial Catch spokesperson Tanya Snyder, who is married to Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder; and ACS CAN volunteer and breast cancer survivor Gail Carey of New York. Read the ACS CAN press release.
ACS CAN has long supported programs to help defeat breast cancer, including the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP), which gives uninsured, underinsured and low-income women access to the mammograms and Pap smears they need to find cancer at the earliest stage. Sixty percent of cancer deaths could be prevented with proper early detection and prevention, but because of inadequate federal funding, fewer than one in five eligible women have access to the program.
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