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Iowa’s cancer crisis demands action.​

Iowa has one of the highest cancer rates in the country — and Iowans want change. Protect Water Prevent Cancer is an Iowa-led campaign connecting clean water, environmental risk factors, and cancer prevention. Families, farmers, rural, and urban Iowans are demanding action.
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This is an Iowa-led movement.

This campaign is built on the voices of thousands of Iowans and a groundbreaking report about the environmental risk factors associated with Iowa’s high cancer rates.
copy of report cover environmental risk factors and iowa's cancer crisis
"Environmental Risk Factors and Iowa’s Cancer Crisis” is a first-of-its-kind report and in-depth literature review of top scientific studies and academic research exploring major environmental contaminants — nitrate, pesticides, PFAS, and radon — and their associations with cancer in Iowa.

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Send an Action Alert to your state legislators
Write a letter to the editor. Test your water. Attend a town hall. Share your story.

There are lots of ways to make a difference. Click here for tools, resources, and more ways to plug in.