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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 Mission
Build a Canada-wide movement to eliminate preventable contributors to cancer through research, awareness, education and advocacy.
Some Accomplishments
Prevent Cancer Now received Official Charity Status in July 2025. All donors who contributed in 2025 and on will receive a Charitable Receipt for tax purposes.
YOU CAN MAKE YOUR CHARITABLE DONATION HERE
Some early accomplishments include:
- 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.
More recently, Prevent Cancer Now has broadened its approaches:
- Advanced making least-toxic the norm with science-based submissions, advocacy and in-person consultations on federal, provincial and municipal laws and policies.
- Presented robust scientific perspectives on weaknesses in assessment and regulation of harmful agents.
- Made government study collections easily available, such as pollution at CFB Gagetown, and National Research Council studies of asbestos cement drinking water infrastructure.
Topics have included pollution, pesticides, chemicals in daily life, waste and incineration, radiofrequency radiation/wireless technologies, and many preferable, least-toxic alternatives. More recent work is available on this website.