Take action

Sometimes people feel overwhelmed by cancer, but you don't have to feel powerless. You can make a difference by getting involved on a personal, local, national or global level. Find out more below or sign up to receive information on our latest activities that you can support.

Take action personally, locally, nationally or globally!

Personal

Become a cancer prevention champion! Sign up to receive information and updates about events and activities that you can be part of to help cut the cancer risk in your community.

Become a Local Hero by participating in a clinical trial. Clinical trials are the best way of testing a new cancer treatment, or of seeing whether one type of cancer prevention works better than another. A list of cancer prevention clinical trials is at Cancer Council Victoria's trials webpage. Search for 'prevention' under keywords.

Cut your own cancer risk by taking our quiz or visiting our how to page to learn about simple lifestyle changes you can make.

Inspire others by letting us know what changes you're making to cut your cancer risk.

Share your own personal experience of cancer through our Arts Awards program

Join our Facebook community to receive information and inspiration on how to cut your cancer risk.

Local

SunSmart. How smart is your child's school or early childhood service? Make sure they are SunSmart by promoting a healthy balance of UV exposure. This will help minimise skin and eye damage and the risk of skin cancer, and help with vitamin D levels. You can support your school or service through policy development, program membership or helping to create shade, either natural or built. Visit the SunSmart website to find out how.

Fundraising. Find out more about fundraising activities in your area by clicking on the links below.

National

Get Behind Bowel Screening. Lend your voice to our national Get Behind Bowel Screening campaign. We believe every Australian over 50 has the right to a free National Bowel Cancer Screening Program. Visit the website and email your local Member of Parliament. Urge them to put pressure on the Australian Government to expand the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program to include two-yearly screening for everyone over 50 by 2012.

The Parents Jury. The Parents Jury is an online network of parents who advocate for improvements in the food and physical environments of Australian children under the age of 18. As a web-based organisation, The Parents Jury provides parents with the opportunity to develop advocacy skills which they use in their local communities to bring about change regarding children’s nutrition, healthy school canteens, food marketing to children, physical activity environments and healthy supermarket checkouts. Membership is free and joining takes only a few minutes by logging on to The Parents Jury.

Global

World Cancer Declaration. In 2008, it is estimated that there were over 12.4 million new cases of cancer and about 7.6 million deaths from cancer. More than half of cancer cases and 60% of deaths occur in the less-developed countries. Want to change that? Sign up to the World Cancer Declaration. The World Cancer Declaration is a call to action to substantially reduce the global cancer burden by 2020. It was developed by international cancer control advocates to bring the cancer crisis to the attention of policy makers worldwide.

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