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The American Cancer Society National Breast Cancer Roundtable is a coalition of organizations dedicated to solving complex breast cancer and public health challenges that no one organization can accomplish on its own. The ACS NBCRT aims to accelerate progress across the breast cancer continuum through strategic partnerships to eliminate disparities and reduce mortality. The ACS NBCRT will work to ensure all women have access to quality screening and treatment, including Black women and women in other historically excluded communities, and to address the social and emotional needs of patients and their families.

The ACS is a member organization of the roundtable and provides backbone support to the ACS NBCRT, meaning ACS provides organizational leadership, resources, and expert staff needed to convene and coordinate participating organizations to align the work of the group.

The ACS uses the collective impact model as a framework that supports the evaluation of its Roundtable model. The definition of collective impact is a network of community members, organizations, and institutions who advance equity by learning together, aligning, and integrating their actions to achieve population and systems-level change. The collective impact model has five key components: the common agenda, shared measurement, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support.

The ACS, in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), launched its first roundtable, the ACS National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable, in 1997. Since then, ACS has worked with partners to establish the ACS National HPV Vaccination Roundtable (2014), the ACS National Lung Cancer Roundtable (2017), and the ACS National Navigation Roundtable (2017). In October 2022, the ACS launched our newest roundtables in response to the Biden Administration’s Cancer Moonshot, the ACS National Breast Cancer Roundtable and the ACS National Roundtable on Cervical Cancer.

There are no dues associated with ACS NBCRT membership.

No, separate membership applications and notice of acceptance are required for each ACS roundtable.

Organizational Members

Organizational members are defined as public, private, and voluntary organizations (non-commercial interest) dedicated to breast cancer support issues across the continuum and are committed to working collaboratively in areas of public education, provider education, health policy, among others. Organizational members join in support of an ACS Roundtable’s mission, commit to advancing the shared agenda and goals of an ACS Roundtable, and actively participate in roundtable activities.

• Membership is open and initiated via application process.
• Full participatory rights
• One vote per organization
• Qualify for leadership roles (Chairs, Steering Committee, Priority Group Chairs)

Corporate Members

Corporate members are defined as business corporations that have a special affiliation with the roundtable either by making products with proven efficacy that aid in the screening, prevention, or treatment of cancer; or by demonstrating a significant commitment to education about the roundtable subject matter.

Membership is open and initiated via application
process.

Non-voting & unable to hold leadership positions.

To be considered for inclusion in the ACS NBCRT Resource Center, submissions must meet one or more of the following criteria: 

1. The resource or program relates to breast cancer. The resource or program seeks to improve screening, diagnosis, treatment, and/or supportive care needed to improve survival and quality of life. 
2. The resource or program aligns with the vision and mission of the ACS NBCRT. The intent of the ACS NBCRT Resource Center is to promote resources that advance our shared goals to tackle disparities across the breast cancer continuum. 
3. The resource or program is built on sound evidence, current clinical practice guidelines, and/or has been evaluated to demonstrate its effectiveness. There must be some evidence that the resource or program is likely to improve the quality or rate of breast cancer screening or decrease morbidity or mortality from breast cancer. 

The ACS NBCRT does not promote or endorse any particular products, services, or brands and does not engage in lobbying or political activities. Resources or programs in the following categories will be excluded from entry in the ACS NBCRT Resource Center: 

• Promotion of medical or technical products. The ACS NBCRT Resource Center is focused on promoting public health goals, not commercial promotion of brands, drugs or devices, software design and development, or medical equipment and supplies. 
• Promotion of commercial resources or programs. Commercial resources, even those that are clinical in nature, such as new surgical, medical, or professional techniques, are outside the scope of the ACS NBCRT Resource Center. 
• Materials that seek to influence legislation or administrative action. The ACS NBCRT is unable to promote resources that seek to influence legislation or administrative action, whether at the international, federal, state, or local levels. 

Priority will be given to resources or programs that: 

1. Demonstrate a robust evidence base or evaluation results, 
2. Introduce promising innovative or creative strategies that are not already addressed by other resources in the ACS NBCRT Resource Center, and/or 
3. Address health equity issues. 

Thank you for your interest in submitting a resource to the Resource Center. Please complete the form to submit your resource or program description.

If more information is needed, submitters will be contacted via email with a request for additional information. All submissions will receive approval or denial notification. If approved, submitters will be provided the opportunity to review and approve final resource entries before they are posted to the Resource Center.

Individuals making submissions on behalf of an organization must be authorized by the organization to grant permissions to the resources and make the required certifications.