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POSTPONED: 21st Arkansas Cancer Summit and the 17th Annual Clearing the Air in Communities of Color Conference 3.11.2020  The staff of the Arkansas Cancer Coalition and UAPB’s Minority Sub Recipient Grant Office have postponed the 21st Arkansas Cancer Summit and the 17th Annual Clearing the Air in Communities of Color Conference. We apologize for any inconvenience that this change might cause

Most of the 34 million adult Americans who smoke cigarettes want to quit. But smoking will remain the leading preventable cause of disease and death in the U.S. unless more is done to help them quit. In his new report, Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General, VADM Dr. Jerome M. Adams calls on everyone,

Registration is open for the 21st Arkansas Cancer Summit with the 17th Clearing the Air in Communities Of Color Conference on March 31 and April 1, 2020. The Arkansas Cancer Summit is an annual event hosted by the Arkansas Cancer Coalition (ACC) to showcase the recent progress that Coalition partners have made towards meeting the

Please join us for the first ACC Quarterly Meeting of 2020 on February 11, at 9am! This meeting will be at CARTI, 8901 Carti Way, Little Rock, in the Roy and Christine Sturgis Community Education Room.

Registration is open for the ACC Quarterly Meeting on Tuesday, December 17 from 8:30-11:30AM. This meeting will be at Four Points by Sheraton Hotel in Little Rock. We will be having an ugly sweater contest (but it must have a cancer control message), so don’t forget to join in on the fun!

Join ACC September 10, 2019, from 9-11 am at the Hilton Garden Inn, 10914 Kanis Rd, Little Rock 72211, for the ACC Quarterly Meeting. Chris Collier from the Arkansas Prostate Cancer Foundation will provide the latest updates on prostate cancer, Dr. Stacey Smith-Foley from CARTI will talk about the new breast center at CARTI. Lastly,

Please join ACC for the upcoming Quarterly Meeting on May 14. Michael Keck with ACS CAN will provide legislative updates in cancer and tobacco control. Abby Holt will talk about updates on progress and challenges with skin cancer, and lastly, a remembrance of Frankie Melendez Jr. Read more about the event on our calendar https://arcancercoalition.org/events/acc-quarterly-meeting-16.

Save the date for the February 12, 2019, ACC Quarterly Meeting. The meeting will be held at: CARTI Cancer Center Roy and Christine Sturgis Community Education Room 8901 CARTI Way Little Rock, Arkansas 72205 Registration is available here.