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Nuestras Voces Adelante

News on tobacco and related cancers.

Quarterly network updates, plus our statements and calls to action on menthol products, tobacco, vaping, and cancer.

Network Updates

Quarterly newsletters.

June 2024

A bilingual report on the connection between food systems and cancer survivorship, and a guide for health centers on tobacco use among agricultural workers — plus a bilingual vaping toolkit for youth education, the patient-partnered Count Me In cancer research program, and a policy brief on improving language access in federally supported programs.

December 2024

The Surgeon General's report on eliminating tobacco-related disease and bilingual infographics summarizing adolescent health data from the 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey — plus resources to help people quit in the new year, the LIVERWISE project, a publication on food justice policy strategies, and an updated cervical cancer awareness toolkit with Spanish-language materials.

March 2025

The launch of CDC's 2025 Tips From Former Smokers® campaign and new studies from the Healthy Americas Research Consortium using the NIH All of Us dataset. Also Cancer Facts & Figures 2025, an updated oncology patient navigator training, and research showing that integrating cessation counseling with lung cancer screening significantly increases quit rates.

December 2025

New cancer prevention and care resources, including a free bilingual oncology patient navigation training from the GW Cancer Center and research on tobacco use, lung cancer screening, and risk-based breast cancer screening — plus an HPV provider toolkit, findings from the 2025 Monitoring the Future study on youth substance use, and a webinar on health risks and gender inequalities in tobacco use among women in Latin America and the Caribbean.

June 2025

The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, showing continued declines in cancer death rates but rising incidence of obesity-related cancers — plus studies on tobacco use among Hispanic youth, community health worker programs for cancer screening, a peer clinical trials support program, national survey results on barriers to screening, and the 2025 National Conference on Tobacco or Health.

March 2024

A bilingual cancer data brief with an infographic on cancer incidence and mortality by race, ethnicity, and gender, and a policy report on flavored tobacco use and nicotine addiction among Hispanic youth. Also a webinar on the Food is Medicine initiative, CDC's 2024 Tips From Former Smokers® campaign, a redesigned Spanish-language website, and updated CDC menthol cigarette fact sheets for all states.

June 2026

The latest public health research findings and resources, including a new report on U.S. health outcomes, encouraging declines in youth tobacco use, new research on commercial tobacco use among adolescents, a nationwide breast cancer genetics study, an educational webinar on emerging pancreatic cancer treatments, and a new policy brief on practical strategies communities can use to protect youth from nicotine addiction.

March 2026

The American Cancer Society's 2026 Cancer Facts & Figures and Cancer Statistics 2026, and the American Lung Association's 2026 State of Tobacco Control. Plus Empower + Logistic Assistance, a culturally tailored intervention to increase mammography screening among Hispanic women aged 50–74; the University of Rochester's Actívatexto text-based cessation and activity program; an upcoming prostate cancer webinar cohosted by PAHO, ASCO, and MD Anderson; and a Truth Initiative event on the Hispanic and Latino community's relationship with nicotine.

September 2024

Bilingual infographics for National Hispanic Family Cancer Awareness Week, Spanish-language materials from the Empower Vape-Free Youth campaign, and updated BRFSS data. Also Spanish webinars on balancing work and cancer, a PAHO report on disease burden in the Americas, and bilingual NCI videos with nutrition and food safety tips for people in cancer treatment.

September 2025

A video series from the National Lung Cancer Roundtable explaining lung cancer staging, and research on how excluding Hispanic ethnicity from racial categories affects national estimates of youth tobacco use. Also funding opportunities using the NIH All of Us dataset, new data on youth nicotine pouch use, a digital social marketing guide for quitline campaigns, a text-messaging cessation study, and a Surgeon General resource guide on youth vaping.

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