Ever wonder who the Cancer Prevention Challenge Top Ten are?

You may have noticed that the left hand side of the Cancer Prevention Challenge website has a list of “Top Ten” fundraisers. Here is a brief snapshot of how people are doing for the Cancer Prevention Challenge fundraising goals this year:

Terry Howell, with the CAW Durham Regional Racers, has absolutely SMASHED his fundraising goal of $1000. So far, Terry has raised $4124 – exceeding her goals by 412%! Wow! Way to go Terry! Click here to see how she’s doing.

Greg & Marci have chopped, sliced and assembled their way to $910. They hosted a Cancer Prevention Challenge sandwich party and attracted many hungry and generous guests. They came up with an amazing fundraiser with a creative edge and a remarkable outcome. Great job! Check out their page here!

Sarah Dobec, has committed to EXERCISE, an excellent choice for anyone. Sarah has raised a whopping $840 so far and she probably feels EXCELLENT about it. As we all know, regular exercise is a great way to stay healthy, feel good and Prevent Cancer Now. Sarah is raising money for FoodShare Toronto. Check out her accomplishments here.

Here’s a challenge that’s more difficult than it appears. Leigh Hayden is going to try and only buy food that DOES NOT contain plastic packaging. For 30 days? No easy feat. We’ll update you with how it’s going and what challenges that Leigh faced. Check out Leigh’s personal Cancer Prevention Challenge event here.

Good luck with your personal Cancer Prevention Challenge. What you are doing is important and will help influence others.

Please email me if you have information that you can share with others on how your Challenge experience is going. If anyone has pictures, please send them along:

Dallas Shannon – Fundraising Coordinator
dallas@preventcancernow.ca
http://www.preventcancernow.ca/cpc-2011/

Activity, Sleep May Cut Cancer Risk

Active Women May Need at Least 7 Hours of Nightly Sleep for Lower Cancer Risk

Physical activity may cut cancer risk, and sleeping at least seven hours per night may maximize that benefit. That’s according to new research presented in Washington, D.C. at an international meeting on cancer prevention hosted by the American Association for Cancer Research.

The researchers, who included James McClain, PhD, MPH, a cancer prevention fellow at the National Cancer Institute, reviewed data on nearly 6,000 Maryland women.

In 1998, the women completed surveys about how much physical activity andsleep they typically get. Over the next nine years, the group had 604 new cases of cancer.

As expected, physical activity was linked to lower cancer rates. But sleep also mattered. Read more here.

 

Rossland chefs and community cooks alike rose to the challenge in the first annual Kiss-Off Cancer Cook-Off, held on Sunday, May 1. Hungry guests and Prevent Cancer Now, a national organization aimed at eliminating the preventable causes of cancer, were the beneficiaries in the town’s biggest and healthiest gourmet pot-luck dinner.

Four celebrity chefs from The Gypsy at Red, Drift Izakaya, The Flying Steamshovel and Gabriella’s (Goldtown Dining at the Prestige Inn) wowed diners and the judges with their dishes, crammed with anti-cancer ingredients. Mike Brandt, Rossland native and chef-owner of the Gypsy at Red, took away top honours for his meal, featuring a vegetable samosa appetizer, garam masala-rubbed salmon and halibut “Napolean”, and a yummy dessert of peanut butter nougat topped with a dark chocolate ganache served with fresh berries. The Gypsy also captured the hearts (and stomachs) of guests, receiving the Consumer’s Choice Award for all three courses.

The 70 guests who attended the Kiss-Off Cancer Cook-Off also left the event satisfied and raving over the excellent food and prizes. Many said they are looking forward to next year’s event.

Prevent Cancer Now (PCN) organizers were very impressed with the support from the community and local businesses. The restaurants donated hundreds of dollars in time and ingredients. Century 21 underwrote many of the expenses, and Kootenay Coop and Endless Harvest donated baskets of organic products. Dozens of local businesses and artists contributed prizes and items for the silent auction. Keeping expenses low meant the event netted about $4000 towards cancer prevention projects in the West Kootenays and beyond.

Further information: Diana Daghofer, 250-362-5810 or Diana@preventcancernow.ca.

In 2010, Prevent Cancer Now received funding from both the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation and Ontario’s Trillium Foundation to produce a presentation that would highlight cancer prevention. The hope was that this presentation could then be turned into a lecture series which would serve to educate the public about cancer prevention.

The presentation has been recently tested in front of a pilot audience in Ottawa and it is now ready to be rolled out in the Ottawa area.

The presentation distills current cancer research into basic, credible messages that participants can take home to “Prevent Cancer Now”.

The presentation, “Prevention Is The Cure”, is currently available in the Ottawa area for community groups, workplaces, schools, universities and colleges, churches – anywhere where people meet. Some doctors are already asking to see and hear it. The presentation is free but the take home message may be priceless for those who attend and their families and friends. It may save lives. Anyone can contact us to line up a presentation for their organization or group, or to find out where one is planned.

To view the presentation’s trailer please click here.

To read more about this presentation please click here.

After seven years and more than $450,000 raised for many worthy cancer prevention projects, the CPC torch has been passed from the Women’s Healthy Environments Network to the good folks at Prevent Cancer Now, who will carry on fundraising under the same Cancer Prevention Challenge name. Since prevention is the best single opportunity to stop the cancer epidemic in Canada – it deserves our wholehearted support!

Events for 2011 are starting to come together. This year we are encouraging people to choose a personal challenge that suits you. Pick something that you’ve always wanted to do or an activity that you are already planning to be involved with.

You know yourself better than anybody! Come up with something healthy, fun and challenging – something that you want to do.

Here is a list of ideas to get your creative juices flowing:

• Eat organic foods for one month.
• Go vegetarian for a day!
• Walk, cycle or run to work every day for one month.
• Give up a favourite “guilty pleasure” for a certain amount of time – ice cream, red meat, coffee, fried foods, etc.

Pick something challenging but not impossible. Have fun and write about your experiences.

For really weird and wacky ideas, please click here.

Learn to Juggle as your 2011 Prevent Cancer Challenge!

Most of the multi-million dollar ‘cure’ fundraisers in Canada have the funds to set up elaborate events in various parts of Canada, all with very high overheads! The Cancer Prevention Challenge operates a different way: You decide how you want to raise funds, from something as simple as choosing your Personal Challenge in cancer prevention, to organizing an event in your community.

We give you the electronic tools needed to create your Personal Challenge no matter where you live in Canada, all supported with personal fundraising web pages and automated charitable receipts for donations of $20 or more. We also have a great team of volunteers and staff to help you every step of the way. You can raise funds for cancer prevention by staging dance-a-thons, potluck suppers, poker tournaments, garage sales – whatever motivates you, your friends and your colleagues to have fun and raise money at the same time!

You know yourself better than anybody. Come up with something healthy, fun and challenging – something that you want to do. Here is a list of ideas to get your creative juices flowing:

• Eat organically for one month!
• Don’t eat meat for 30 days!
• Walk, cycle or run to work everyday for one month!
• Give up a favorite “guilty pleasure” for a month – ice cream, chocolate, coffee, fried foods, etc. Pick something challenging but not impossible. Have fun and write about your experiences on your provided fundraising page.

For really more wonderful weird and wacky ideas, please click here.
If you want to challenge yourself and participate in cancer prevention please click here.