Cholangiocarcinoma Awareness Month Highlights 2024
Awareness Month 2024 was the most inspiring yet! Thank you to all who participated in Cholangiocarcinoma Awareness Month this past February! Together, we illuminated landmarks, shared our stories, and educated communities worldwide about this cancer we will no longer allow to be overlooked.
We aim to ensure that the momentum we’ve built this month continues throughout the year. The strength of our collective efforts as a community provides hope by advancing research to improve treatments and, ultimately, find a cure. Here is a glimpse of some of the results we saw:
Fun Facts
- 40 structures lit #greenforCCA
- 110+ homes lit green
- Proclamation requests submitted in all 50 states
- Proclamations declared February as Cholangiocarcinoma Awareness Month in 28 states and eight cities
- 150 free light bulbs and yard signs distributed thanks to Taiho Oncology
- $41,723.07 raised
- 647 Light it Green website page views
- Total social media reach: 350,000
Media Highlights
- CCF’s Founder and CEO’s Opinion Editorial was run in 7 US newspapers and picked up in Yahoo! News
- CCF’s Chief Medical Officer’s Podcast Interview with the cancer series on Sick & Good was the medium’s most downloaded episode to date
- CCF’s Chief Patient Officer and CCA Survivor Melinda Bachini and CholangioConnect Mentor Rob Howard were featured in Rare Disease Advisor as part of their Rare Disease Awareness Month Series
#GreenforCCA
The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation (CCF) celebrated awareness month with its Light it Green for CCA campaign. The campaign invited the cholangiocarcinoma community to spread bile duct cancer awareness by lighting homes and local buildings green and declaring proclamations to recognize Cholangiocarcinoma Awareness Month. CCF’s #GreenforCCA campaign also received hundreds of posts across Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. We loved seeing your homes and local buildings illuminated green for awareness!
Volunteers and community members from across the country pledged and successfully illuminated landmarks, buildings, and homes green on World CCA Day as a part of the Foundation’s Light it Green for CCA initiative. More than 150 homes and buildings were lit #greenforcca across the globe.
World CCA Day
Across social media, the Foundation saw your green! Thanks to hundreds of posts, World CCA Day had a reach of 65k. In addition, thanks to this community, 28 official proclamations declared February 15th as World Cholangiocarcinoma Day.
Buildings and Structures were lit green across the US and Canada including
- Delaware Memorial Bridge
- PECO Crown Lights, Lincoln Financial Field, and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia
- Soldier Field in Chicago
- Peace Bridge in Buffalo
- SkyWheel in Myrtle Beach
- TargetCancer Foundation, Prudential Tower, and John Hancock Tower in Boston
- Gillette Stadium in Foxborough (Boston area)
- JL Tower in Alaska
- Sunshine Skyway Bridge in St. Petersburg
- Lowry Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis
- Seattle Great Wheel
- Tennessee State Capitol
- Jean Talon Market in Quebec
- High Level Bridge in Edmonton, AB
- Calgary Tower in Calgary, AB
- Red Deer City Hall in Red Deer, AB
- BC Legislature Building in Victoria, BC
- Science World in Vancouver, BC
- Esplanade Riel Bridge in Winnipeg, MB
- Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, ON
- City of Ottawa Sign in Ottawa, ON
- City of Hamilton Sign in Hamilton, ON
- Peace Bridge in Fort Erie, ON
- Saskatoon City Hall in Saskatoon, SK
- City Hall in Halifax, NS
- Mobile skyline in Mobile, AL
- Terminal Tower, Cleveland, OH
- Frost Tower in San Antonio, TX
- Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, SC
- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Matagarup Bridge in Australia
- Cary Arts Center in Cary, NC
- Advent Health in Orlando, FL