The Weekend Voice Challenge: Take It, Share It, Keep It Moving

What can 10–12 minutes change?

On its own, one survey response may feel small. Combined with hundreds of others, it can help reveal patterns that individual stories cannot show alone: where care is delayed, which supports are missing, how cancer affects financial and emotional well-being, and whose concerns are most likely to go unheard.

That is the power of 1,000 voices.

The 1,000 Voices for Cancer Equity™ Campaign is building a national benchmark of lived cancer experiences. Led by United Colors of Cancer and supported by a Founding Coalition, the campaign seeks to ensure that the realities of adult cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers—especially those from BIPOC and underserved communities—are represented in the information that shapes research, programs, healthcare, and policy.

The survey is open to eligible adults of every race and background. It is anonymous, takes approximately 10–12 minutes, and asks about access to care, treatment, financial challenges, emotional well-being, support needs, and whether people felt seen and heard.

This weekend, we invite you to take the Weekend Voice Challenge:

Take it. If you are an adult cancer patient, survivor, or caregiver, complete the survey.
Share it. Send the link directly to two people.
Keep it moving. Ask each person to share the invitation with someone else whose experience deserves to be counted.

Complete or share the survey at https://1000voices.unitedcolorsofcancer.org.

Our goal is at least 20 completed surveys today and our first 1,000 voices by September 24, World Cancer Research Day. Reaching that benchmark will take more than awareness. It will take action—one response, one invitation, and one community at a time.

One voice can be overlooked. One thousand voices can become a benchmark for change.

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