affecting cancer together

Upcoming Cancer
Screening Events

Upcoming Prostate Cancer Screening and Events:

We will be updating for 2012 soon!

Affecting Cancer
Together

“Affecting Cancer Together™ (ACT) is a health outreach initiative by the Purdue University Center for Cancer Research. ACT was developed to help address the cancer disease burden experienced in Indiana and its primary focus is cancer awareness, education, prevention, and connecting people to early detection screening services. This program has been launched in Indianapolis, Indiana, specifically in Marion County. The goal of ACT is to decrease cancer health disparities, which could improve cancer incidence and mortality rates in Indiana.

We are a cancer program, however we are currently launching with prostate cancer to decrease health disparities experienced by all men in Indiana, especially African American men. Moreover, ACT is a cancer education program that utilizes a construct which barbers and barbershops act as lay health motivators in their communities primarily educating their clientele, family, and friends about prostate cancer, discussing risks of developing prostate cancer, and when appropriate encouraging men to get screened for prostate cancer. ACT also provides and connects men to free prostate cancer screenings through partnerships with health and medical facilities in Indiana.”

Speaking
Requests

Speaker requests are available for community organizations, churches, and business groups. A range of topics pertaining to cancer awareness, prevention, and early detection can be covered.

Presentations Specifically On:

Cancer Prevention
Prostate Cancer
Men’s Health

Please call the agency at least two weeks in advance to reserve a speaker.
1-855-252-UACT (8228)

Ask A
Question

For additional information about cancer, screenings, or Affecting Cancer Together™, please contact:

Teasa Thompson, MPH
Program Manager
1-855-252-UACT (8228)
tthompson@purdue.edu

Learn More
About Cancer

For additional information about cancer

American Cancer Society
Centers for Disease Control
National Cancer Institute
The Prostate Net

ACT in
the News

ACT in the News

USA Today
On the IndyChannel
IndyStar
WIBC
Journal and Courier
Purdue Newsroom

"Affecting Cancer Together is a great opportunity to educate the public at large, at the grass root level. Thank you for the opportunity to partner and affect cancer together.

- Wilson L
"Affecting Cancer Together's one on one basis of education inspired me. I am more educated on how it [prostate cancer] affect's men's bodies and I'm more educated on things I was blind to. . . If I can help 1 in 10 people be screened, if I can save a life, then I've done a good deed."

- Dale S.
"I've changed my lifestyle habits, I'm working out more, eating tomatoes, and drinking V8 now."

- Michael L.
"I learned a lot about prostate cancer. Also, every time a man talks about breast cancer I mention that men are 35% times more likely to develop prostate cancer and they are shocked. Men don't realize how many of us are affected."

- Lamar S.
"It's an honor and a privilege to be able to participate in a program that affects men, especially African American men, that helps to inform and educate on how to stop this disease. The barber shop is a platform in the community and I feel it's an obligation to participate."

- Johnny T.
"Affecting Cancer Together enlightened me to be more aware of my body, be more active in getting tested, and be more involved in cancer awareness programs because we can all be subject to have cancer at any time."

- Matthew M.
"In my opinion, the program has been very informative. The need for preventive measures is very important since the black male sometimes waits too long to get checked out at the doctor. This [prostate cancer] is also an issue that most black males aren't knowledgeable about. To be a part of the campaign is very important."

- Qureck W.
"This is a very knowledgeable program every man should hear."

- Rick K.
"The ACT program led by Teasa Thompson has been a very informative, potential life changing program that has touched home even in my own life [since I've been] affected by prostate cancer via my father. . . This program has truly been a blessing not only to me and the barbers, but to our community as a whole."

- Kirk P.

Cancer in the News

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