affecting cancer together

Be ProACTive about your health

Partner Events
and News

Upcoming Prostate Cancer Screening and Events:

Prostate Cancer Awareness - May Download PDF

2013 Indiana Black Barbershop Health Initiative - Save the Date Card

ACT prostate cancer screening flyer_4-11-13

Enroll Indiana Flyer

Special Edition - Health Events in Indiana - April 2013

Learn More
About ACT

Learn More About ACT

Affecting Cancer Together™ (ACT) is a statewide effort focused on reducing the morbidity, mortality, health disparities and inequities of cancer and other chronic diseases in Indiana.

Our Mission

Our mission is primary prevention of cancer and other chronic diseases in Indiana through awareness and education, providing a bridge to health resources and services, as well as developing health leaders, lay health educators, and health motivators in the community. We also aim to improve health outcomes for all Hoosiers, including underserved populations.

Our Vision

We strive to lead primary prevention efforts, be a trusted resource, and positively impact health attitudes and behaviors within communities throughout Indiana.

Our Approach

Non-traditional health care settings in the community are utilized to promote awareness, educate about, motivate and encourage prevention and early detection of cancer (including but not limited to prostate and colorectal cancers) and other chronic diseases (i.e. cardiovascular disease and diabetes).

Community Involvement

It is imperative that our efforts are reflective of the community’s voice. Therefore, we focus on integrating the community’s input and feedback into programmatic ACTion.

Stop Smoking
Today

Stop Smoking Today!

Indiana’s Tobacco Quit Line and Quit Now Indiana Website: http://www.quitnowindiana.com/

1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669)

What if the tools you need to quit smoking are as easy to find as a cigarette?

NCI developed a mobile app, using proven quit strategies and tools, to help you change behavior and give up smoking. By downloading NCI QuitPal for free from the App Store(SM) to your iPhone or iPad, you can instantly get help to quit smoking, right at your fingertips.

NCI QuitPal is available for iPhone or iPad to help smokers working to become smoke-free.

Applies the latest smoking cessation evidence and behavior change theory

Contains more than 10 functional areas such as setting a quit date, financial goals, and reminders

Tracks daily smoking habits with an easy-to-use calendar

Includes motivational reminders that coincide with progress

Sends health milestones and craving tips to motivate

Allows users to connect with social networks and view personalized video messages from loved ones

Makes it easy to access NCI's Cancer Information Service by toll-free phone line or live chat

Download now or search "QuitPal" from the App Store

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, a great time to tell others!
View suggested social media posts.
View and print the flyer.

For additional smoking cessation resources, visit smokefree.gov.

NCI Office of Communications and Education
Public Inquiries Office
6116 Executive Boulevard
Suite 300
Bethesda, MD 20892-8322

Ask A
Question

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

Get live, online assistance from the NCI's LiveHelp service for cancer in English and Spanish

Learn More
About Cancer

For additional information about cancer

American Cancer Society
Centers for Disease Control
National Cancer Institute
The Prostate Net
Indiana Cancer Consortium
Prostate Cancer Foundation
Center for Disease Control

ACT in
the News

ACT in the News

USA Today
On the IndyChannel
IndyStar
WIBC
Purdue Newsroom

Third Annual Indiana Black Barbershop Health Initiative

ABC 57
WSBT
NWI Times

Aprender Más
Sobre el Cancer

Aprender Más Sobre el Cancer

Cancer.gov en Español
Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades

Donation
Information

Help us to continue our impACT!

To Donate directly to ACT, please make a check payable to “Affecting Cancer Together.” Send this check to:

ATTN: Development
Purdue University Center for Cancer Research
201 S University St
West Lafayette, IN 47907

If you prefer to make a donation other than by personal check, please see the “Donate Now” button at the very top of the webpage and follow the instructions to donate by credit card or otherwise. Please remember to indicate “AFFECTING CANCER TOGETHER” on the donation so that the donation routed to us.

Speaking
Requests

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)

"2013 Indiana Black Barbershop Health Initiative kick-off at the statehouse (left to right: Gregory Kenny, Gov. Mike Pence, Teasa Thompson)"
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"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
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"I've changed my lifestyle habits, I'm working out more, eating tomatoes, and drinking V8 now."

- Michael L.
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"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.
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"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.
"2012 Indiana Black Barbershop Health Initiative Press Event (left to right: Teasa Thompson, Gov. Mitch Daniels, Dr. Timothy Ratliff)
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"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.
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"This is a very knowledgeable program every man should hear."

- Rick K.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.