Our Mission
Kids Who Care: Having Important Conversations One at a Time to Prevent Cancer
Kids 4 Cancer Prevention is a youth-founded and youth-led initiative dedicated to sharing accessible cancer education and prevention information. We believe that kids can be powerful messengers to adults in their lives, helping spread cancer awareness and encouraging conversations about screening, family history, and healthy lifestyles in the fight against cancer. Here are four ways kids can make a difference:
Encourage adults in your life to get screened for cancer, on time.
Adults need to get screened for a variety of different cancers including colorectal cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer and other cancers depending on guidelines and risk factors. Sometimes adults in our lives, are so busy that they forget to get screened. Kids have the power to remind them to get screened on time.
Act early on concerning symptoms.
Cancer can present with different symptoms or signs, which vary depending on the type of cancer. Do not let your loved ones put off talking to their provider about symptoms. Diagnosing cancer early helps plan next steps .
Know your family history of cancer
Certain cancers run in the family. Sometimes, genetic testing may be needed to figure out if there are changes in the DNA that may run in families that increase cancer risk. A great time for kids to ask about family history is during the holidays, when everyone is together.
Foster a healthy diet and lifestyle
Certain cancer risk factors are modifiable, meaning that we can decrease our cancer risk by changing our habits. Eating a healthy diet, maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active and avoiding things that can increase cancer risk such as tobacco and alcohol are important for general health and to decrease cancer risk.