In his final State of the Union address, President Obama tasked Vice President Biden with heading up a new national effort to end cancer as we know it. Here's the ultimate goal: To double the rate of progress toward a cure. To make a decade worth of advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, in five years. Getting it done isn't just going to take the best and brightest across the medical, research, and data communities — but millions of Americans owning a stake of it.

That’s where you come in!

We often talk about Cancer as something that happens to us. It’s time for us to happen to Cancer. The Cancer Moonshot is a mission, and all of us can serve. How will you make a difference, break down barriers to progress, or catalyze change where you live or work?

Here are a few simple ideas you can do today. There are over 1,000 volunteer opportunities nationwide, and more being added every day!

Volunteer Through the Cancer Support Community Volunteer with the American Cancer Society  Host a Lemonade Stand through Alex’s Lemonade StandSearch for Cancer-related Volunteer Opportunities Here 

You can also do the following: 

• Drive a cancer patient to treatment.
• Participate in a walk or run.
• Create your own Cancer Moonshot service event in your community.

Create Your Own Cancer Moonshot Event 

Whatever you do, let us know how it goes: post about it, snap a photo, or take video and share it on social media with the hashtag #CanServe.