Today We Launch 1,000 Voices for Cancer Equity™

Today, we begin listening.

The 1,000 Voices for Cancer Equity™ survey is now live, and United Colors of Cancer is inviting patients, survivors, thrivers, and caregivers across the country to help build a clearer picture of what cancer care feels like behind the statistics.

Our goal is bold: gather 1,000 voices by September 24, World Cancer Research Day, and begin building the first national benchmark of BIPOC cancer experiences.

The survey will remain open through December 31, 2026, but this first 1,000 matters. It will show what is possible when communities come together quickly, intentionally, and with purpose.

Why your voice matters

Healthcare data often records what happened.

It may show that treatment started late without showing the transportation barrier, insurance delay, or communication breakdown behind it.

It may show that a patient completed therapy without showing the debt, job loss, caregiving strain, or emotional distress carried along the way.

It may count someone as a survivor without asking about fertility, long-term symptoms, fear of recurrence, or the quality of life that followed.

Your experience helps supply the missing context.

When one person shares, we learn a story. When 1,000 people share, we can begin to see patterns—patterns that can strengthen advocacy, sharpen research questions, guide support programs, and help decision-makers understand where cancer care is failing the people it is meant to serve.

What to expect

The survey takes approximately 10–12 minutes and covers four areas:

• About you.
• Access to care and barriers.
• Emotional and financial impact.
• Treatment experiences and what you want the cancer community to understand.

The campaign centers BIPOC communities because those experiences have too often been underrepresented in cancer research and decision-making. Everyone affected by cancer is welcome to participate.

Responses are designed to be collected anonymously, and the survey asks for only the first three digits of a ZIP code to help identify broad geographic patterns.

Three ways to act today

1. Take the survey

Share your experience honestly. There are no perfect answers, and you do not need to speak for anyone but yourself.

Take the survey now: survey3.unitedcolorsofcancer.org

2. Invite one person

Send the survey to one patient, survivor, thriver, or caregiver whose perspective deserves to be included.

If every participant brings one more voice, the movement grows.

3. Help your organization share

If you lead a community group, cancer organization, clinic, faith community, alumni network, sorority, fraternity, media platform, or workplace, share the campaign with your audience.

Representation does not happen by accident. It happens when trusted people open trusted doors.

This is more than a launch

Today is not the finish line. It is the beginning of a national listening practice grounded in dignity, equity, and community voice.

We are grateful to our Founding Coalition Partners, the advocates who helped shape this work, and every person who chooses to trust us with part of their experience.

Your story is knowledge.

Your experience is evidence.

Your voice can help change what cancer data can see.

Let us reach 1,000 voices—together.

Take the survey: survey3.unitedcolorsofcancer.org

Visit the campaign headquarters: 1000voices.unitedcolorsofcancer.org