A Celebration of Life: The Arkansas Cancer Coalition’s Cancer Summit X - March 23rd, 2009
Each year, the Arkansas Cancer Coalition hosts the Cancer Summit to showcase progress of Coalition partners in meeting objectives of the state’s comprehensive cancer plan. The Summit allows for discussion, networking, skill building and collaboration among Arkansas’s cancer prevention and control communities.
The tenth annual Arkansas Cancer Summit, themed “Cancer Survivorship: Embracing the Journey,” will be held on Tuesday, March 31, at the Holiday Inn Airport Conference Center in Little Rock. This year’s Summit will highlight cancer survivor stories, access to health care, navigating the system, and surviving and thriving. It will also explore issues reaching beyond cancer to address overall chronic disease rates.
One in every two men and one in every three women in Arkansas will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime. Cancer’s economic, psychological and social costs are staggering, and its impact on patients, their families and their communities is immeasurable. The Arkansas Cancer Coalition exists to provide a favorable environment for cancer control partners to work to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, the burden of cancer for every person in the state.
The Coalition is a partnership of individuals and organizations working together to provide an overview of the current status of cancer control in Arkansas, reduce the overall burden of cancer, and improve the quality of life for those personally affected by cancer by strengthening and sustaining the cancer control partnership support network.
For more information on the Arkansas Cancer Coalition and to register for the summit, visit www.arkansascancercoalition.org.
