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  • Nov 19, 2014
    American Cancer Society Offers Tips to Quit During the Great American Smokeout November 20

    ATLANTA – November 19, 2014 — Smoking is one of the rare things in life when it’s OK to be a quitter. The American Cancer Society Great American Smokeout takes place on the third Thursday of...

  • Nov 13, 2014
    Former Health and Human Services Official Will Lead Prevention and Early Detection Programs

    The American Cancer Society announced today that Rosemarie "Rosie" Henson, senior advisor to the assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will join...

  • Nov 10, 2014

    ATLANTA – November 10, 2014 –Half of all premature deaths from colorectal cancer (described as deaths in people ages 25 to 64) in the United States are linked to ethnic, socioeconomic, and...

  • Oct 30, 2014

    Durham, N.C. – October 22, 2014— James A. Tulsky, M.D., chief of Duke Palliative Care and professor of Medicine and Nursing at Duke University, has been named the 2014 recipient of the...

  • Oct 9, 2014
    Nation’s largest non-government, not-for-profit cancer research funder awards 83 grants totaling $44 million in second of two cycles for 2014

    The American Cancer Society, the largest non-government, not-for-profit funding source of cancer research in the United States, has awarded 83 national research and training grants totaling $44...