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Seven Week Challenge

Friday, February 27th, 2009

I “signed up” - it’s painless - just a few clicks of the mouse. If you can, too - that would be great.

Thanks!

The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network is launching a bold new initiative designed to advance research into the disease faster than ever before. Through this initiative, called “Your Seven Week Challenge: Make Pancreatic Cancer History”, you have the opportunity to bring hope to everyone touched by the nation’s fourth leading cancer killer.

By participating in Your Seven Week Challenge, you will help us raise national awareness for pancreatic cancer, and increase critical support for the Pancreatic Cancer Research & Education Act – groundbreaking legislation that would dramatically increase funding for pancreatic cancer research, and that may eventually lead to a cure.

Your Seven Week Challenge is easy and will take only a few minutes of your time during the seven-week period. To get started, sign Your Seven Week Challenge Pledge, and commit to completing one quick action a week. During each of the seven weeks, we will send you a reminder e-mail with easy instructions to complete that week’s action. The tasks we’ll send you are simple, such as placing a phone call, transmitting a fax or sending an e-mail. Through your efforts, you will join thousands of others who are participating in the Challenge, enabling us to speak with one loud, unified voice.

Completing Your Seven Week Challenge brings rewards in addition to heightening awareness of pancreatic cancer. If you complete all seven actions, you will automatically be entered into a drawing to win our grand prize: a $250 gift certificate for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network online Store. The drawing will be held on April 28th.

Working together, we can make a real difference in the lives of the many thousands of people who are currently battling pancreatic cancer, and thousands more who will face the disease in coming years. Please sign Your Seven Week Challenge Pledge to begin TODAY and send this email to your friends and family to ask them to join us, as well.

Together we can Make Pancreatic Cancer History!

Sincerely,

Julie Fleshman
President and CEO
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Sign Your Seven Week Challenge Pledge today!

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Call to Action

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Please help by writing to your U.S. Representative TODAY to ask them to co-sponsor the Pancreatic Cancer Research and Education Act and make pancreatic cancer a national priority.

All it takes is a couple of clicks.

Thank You.

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Every Fifteen Minutes

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

an American is diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer.

Allan’s Page

U.S. CONGRESS PASSES HR 745 DECLARING NOVEMBER NATIONAL PANCREATIC CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. U.S.A. (September 28, 2006)— After thousands of phone calls, emails, letters and personal visits to Congressional representatives from the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s (PanCAN) grassroots advocates, the U.S. Congress responded Monday by unanimously passing House Resolution 745, a bill introduced by Rep. Todd Platts (R-PA) to recognize November 2006 as National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. Platts has helped focus the House on the plight of the pancreatic cancer community for the last five years by introducing similar resolutions designating November as National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.

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Something I Never Expected
Saturday, October 7th, 2006

Congress will soon be deciding how much funding the federal government will provide for cancer research. While the leaders of the House and Senate have agreed to provide a $7 billion increase for health and other programs, including NIH and NCI, their proposals fall far short of that goal. In fact, the funding levels that they are currently considering would result in a cut for cancer research. There is still far too much that needs to be done within the field of pancreatic cancer research to accept a cut in funding. We need early detection tools, treatments, and a cure. Make sure your Senators and Representative know that you think pancreatic cancer research is a funding priority and should be one of their priorities too.

You can do that by clicking here. It’s painless, and only takes a minute.

A year ago we were trying to get into the sugar beet fields. Like now, it was too wet. This year there are beets in the valley, but none in our fields. I never liked sugar beets, they took too much time, energy and expense.

I wish that we could be out in this beet field again.

Allan’s Page

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