title: Examining advocacy and comprehensive cancer control.
abstract: The effectiveness of advocacy has been well documented and its use established as a common practice in furthering sound public health policy and practices. Efforts are underway to explain how advocacy has supported, shaped and influenced public policy concerning -- and the growth and development of -- comprehensive cancer control initiatives. The objective of this paper is to assess the history, current role and future of advocacy as a means of articulating the value of, and furthering, comprehensive cancer control practices. Comprehensive cancer control is approaching a critical moment in its development, and a unified approach is necessary to achieve common goals. A call to action for supporting and contributing to the success of a comprehensive approach to cancer control is more important today than it was 11 years ago. Advocacy is an essential strategy in that call to action.
authors.affiliation: National Government Relations Department, American Cancer Society, 901 E Street, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20004, USA. wselig@cancer.org
authors.forename: Wendy K D
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Selig
authors.forename: K Larry
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Jenkins
authors.forename: Steven L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Reynolds
authors.forename: Dave
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Benson
authors.forename: Morgan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Daven
mesh_terms: D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011050:Policy Making