American Samoa Community Cancer Coalition

We are a diverse community group of advocates with a common goal of helping the people of American Samoa fight cancer.

We understand there are limited resources to diagnose and treat cancer on island, so we focus on two priorities to unite our activities.

1) Prevent cancer from occurring; and
2) Aid those who have been affected with cancer.

Cancer patients can apply for our Financial Assistance Program, called Tautai Lavea'i.

The goal of Tautai Lavea`i is to save lives from cancer by identifying and mitigating barriers to care, thereby improving timely access to life saving diagnostics and treatment. The scope of Tautai Lavea`i begins with a definitive cancer diagnosis and ends with the patient’s decision to act on this diagnosis.

ALL donations are used for patient stipends and none of it goes towards administrative costs.

We understand it takes strength and perseverance of our members and staff.  We utilize these to support each other and accomplish our mission.