Press Releases
Here you can browse our press releases, search our archives, and find details about our most recent announcements. Reporters from credentialed media outlets who would like to receive press releases from the American Cancer Society national press office can contact David Sampson.
Nov 30, 2017Centers Receiving American Cancer Society CHANGE Grants Show Greater Increase in ScreeningA new study suggests that an American Cancer Society program has been effective in promoting improvements in colorectal cancer screening rates in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). The...
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Nov 21, 2017Four in ten cancer cases & deaths linked to modifiable risk factors
November 21, 2017– A new American Cancer Society study calculates the contribution of several modifiable risk factors to cancer occurrence, expanding and clarifying the role of known risk...
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Nov 20, 2017Statement of the American Cancer Society and other groups
Statement of the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, National African American Tobacco Prevention Network and the...
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Nov 16, 2017The 42nd Great American Smokeout is on November 16, 2017
The American Cancer Society is encouraging smokers to make a plan to quit smoking during the 42nd Great American Smokeout on November 16, 2017. Tobacco use is the single largest preventable cause...
Nov 15, 2017Objective is to provide patients with rapid cancer diagnostics and appropriate careNovartis, the American Society for Clinical Pathology and the American Cancer Society will work together to devise a common approach to improve access to cancer treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa.