Fight Back Express is coming to Duluth Tomorrow!

We're Fighting Back on Wheels
Visit the Fight Back Express when it comes through your town! (Duluth tomorrow, July 31)America has a problem. Millions of people need cancer care and are unable to get the care they need. Forty percent of cancer patients find themselves unable to pay for food, heat, and housing when paying for medical costs. To draw attention to this issue, a bus called the Fight Back Express will be visiting 48 states in a six-month journey across the United States. It is coming to DULUTH tomorrow. It will be at Bayfront behind the DECC by the waterfront at 3 pm. It will then be going to Wade Stadium to the HUSKIES Baseball game. Today it was in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Sign our "Petition on Wheels" Visitors to the Fight Back Express will be able to sign the bus, creating a “petition on wheels” that no elected official at any level of government will be able to ignore. Signers will become part of a grassroots movement united in its mission to defeat cancer and determined to put cancer at the top of the nation’s agenda. You can help show the government and our presidential contenders that you think health care should be a priority by coming out and visiting the bus when it comes near you. The strength of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), our sister advocacy organization, is in the voices of the people behind it, and we are counting on your voice this year more than any other. Once both parties have a presidential nominee, we will be asking each candidate to make the fight against cancer a priority for their administration. Think the issue of access to care doesn't apply to you? If you or someone you know has had cancer, think again. Every cancer story, whether it has a happy ending or not, is a story of access to care. Some people have access to good care, get screened regularly for cancer, and have a good chance of detecting their cancer early, when it's most treatable. Many others are not getting the preventative care they need, and their cancers are being found late, when the chance of survival is not as good. Our strategy is to collect as many stories as possible from people who have faced a cancer diagnosis and then struggled with how they are going to pay for treatment. Perhaps you are the wife, or husband, or daughter of someone whose treatment was compromised because of the overwhelming expense. We know there are people who have simply given up because of the financial burden it would put on their family. This is wrong. Learn more about this important campaign and find out how you can be part of this grassroots movement by visiting acscan.org and coming out to visit the bus. Visit the web site, for you readers from other states to find out when the bus comes to your town!