National Minority Cancer Awareness Week is April 11-17, 2017

National Minority Cancer Awareness Week (April 11-17)

The MCC Tool-of-the Month has ready-to-use information, data, and resources to help you better and more easily promote National Minority Cancer Awareness Week.

 

Find the following ready-to-use information:

  • Sample article for MCC member organization employee newsletters
  • Cancer disparities data
  • Social determinants of health and socioeconomic status
  • Discrimination contributes to cancer disparities
  • Prevalence of cigarette smoking in other population groups
  • Disparities: geographic and rural vs. urban
  • MCC and other resources
  • Social media

How you can help – share this email and the ready-to-use information with:

  • Communication and marketing staff at your organization
  • Colleagues, other staff, and community partners
  • Tell us how you used these resources by emailing: cochairs@michigancancer.org.

You can also find the Tool-of-the-Month on the MCC homepage at www.michigancancer.org/.

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Upcoming Events

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NIHB presents National Tribal Health Conference | Sheraton Grand at Wildhorse Pass in Chandler, Arizona | LEARN MORE AND REGISTER

75 Years Later:  The Impact of the 1950 Papers on Smoking and Lung Cancer | This symposium will celebrate the achievements that have occurred over the past 75 years in the fields of tobacco control, lung cancer epidemiology and causal inference.  Two seminal papers on lung cancer and smoking initiated these three areas of scholarship in 1950.  Since then, significant public health, policy, and research contributions have been made by scholars around the world.  In this symposium, speakers will highlight such accomplishments and present their current research in these fields. | DOWNLOAD FLIER | REGISTER HERE

Association of American Indian Physicians 53rd Annual Meeting | Hyatt Regency Seattle in Seattle, Washington | LEARN MORE AND REGISTER

National Lung Cancer Screening Day | Now in its fourth year, this initiative is kpowered by a dynamic collaboration among the American Cancer Society's National Lung Cancer Roundtable, GO2 for Lung Cancer, the Radiology Health Equity Coalition, and the American College of Radiology. | LEARN MORE