The San Francisco Cancer Initiative (SF CAN) is a collaborative effort to reduce cancer in San Francisco by engaging health care systems, government, community leaders, and residents.

Watch this video for compelling testimonies why SF CAN is the right initiative for our city in this time.

Cancer kills more San Franciscans than any other cause. Each year, nearly 4,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed in San Francisco’s population of almost 865,000 people, and more than 1,300 residents die from the disease.

Nearly half of those cases come from just a few types of cancer : breast, colorectal, liver, prostate, and tobacco-caused cancers. They are the city’s most prevalent types and ones that are the most likely to be affected by known interventions or better screening.

By concentrating efforts on these common cancers with effective approaches, SF CAN aims to reduce cancer in San Francisco and the burden it places on our residents.

Since many of those cancers affect certain racial and ethnic minorities and the socially disadvantaged more than other groups, a primary focus of SF CAN will be reducing inequities in prevention, screening rates, access to quality healthcare, and outcomes.