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Nearly 10,000 cancer patients, survivors and their families from every Congressional district in the country will gather on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on September 20 for Celebration on the Hill 2006, a day-long nationwide grassroots event celebrating cancer survivorship and empowering cancer advocates to push for laws that will help fight the disease.
Representing Virginia at the event are 85 Celebration Ambassadors who were specially selected to carry the message to lawmakers that government plays a critical role in the fight against cancer. Nearly 4,000 Ambassadors from every Congressional district in the country are meeting with lawmakers throughout the day. Celebration on the Hill, which is sponsored by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action NetworkSM (ACS CAN), is calling nationwide attention to the critical need for government support of cancer research and lifesaving cancer prevention and early detection programs.
Congress in recent years has frozen or cut funding for medical research and lifesaving federal detection and treatment programs.
Last fall, Congress cut the federal funding of the National Institutes of Health for the first time in 35 years and of cancer programs for the first time in a decade. Additional cuts have been proposed this year, jeopardizing the enormous progress that has been made in detecting and treating cancer.
Celebration Ambassadors are asking lawmakers to:
• Sign ACS CAN’S Congressional Cancer Promise, which outlines specific legislative proposals to elevate prevention, early detection and survivorship, increase the nation’s commitment to research, and expand access to care
• Boost federal funding for cancer research and pro
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