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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.
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Selig, W.K.D., Jenkins, K.L., Reynolds, S.L. et al. Examining Advocacy and Comprehensive Cancer Control. Cancer Causes Control 16 (Suppl 1), 61–68 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-005-0485-1
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