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About Us

Prevent Cancer Now

  • Helps people to become savvy citizens;
  • Works to ensure that cancer-causing agents are not in our environment, food and water, homes, schools, workplaces, communities and products in the first place; and
  • Works for health-supportive air, water, food and environments.

Our Vision:

A world where all preventable contributors to cancer are eliminated.

Our Mission

Build a Canada-wide movement to eliminate preventable contributors to cancer through research, awareness, education and advocacy.

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Goals & Strategies

How we’re addressing contributors to cancer.

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Board of Directors

Meet our multi-talented leaders.

History & Plans

Learn more about PCN’s origins and priorities

Some Accomplishments

  • Launched the Cancer Prevention Declaration in mid-May 2006.
  • Have published and distributed An Ounce newsletter since January 2007.
  • Coordinated a letter-writing drive encouraging the Canadian Cancer Society to support a ban on asbestos.
  • Organized a major national conference on cancer prevention, It’s About Prevention. It’s About Time!, in Ottawa, May 2007. The focus was on building a national cancer prevention movement, and establishing a firm agenda for cancer prevention in Canada.
  • Promoted and supported the development of the book Cancer: 101 Solutions to a preventable epidemic.
  • Launched an anti-incineration campaign in 2008 and developed an Incineration Tool-Kit for concerned citizens in January 2009.