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  • Jul 13, 2015

    July 13, 2015– Spending more leisure time sitting was associated with a higher risk of total cancer risk in women, and specifically with multiple myeloma, breast, and ovarian cancers, according...

  • Jul 2, 2015
    Exposure to Other Smokers May Contribute to Continued Smoking

    July 2, 2015–Cancer survivors who smoke report fewer negative opinions about smoking, have more barriers to quitting, and are around other smokers more often than survivors who had quit before...

  • May 11, 2015
    Association Particularly Strong among Only Children

    ATLANTA –May 11, 2015–A new study links a father’s age at birth to the risk that his child will develop blood and immune system cancers as an adult, particularly for only children. The...

  • May 4, 2015
    Poverty may play an important role

    While black and white men under age 65 diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer received similar treatment, blacks had a 76% higher risk of death than whites, according to a new study. The study,...

  • Apr 20, 2015
    Largest study of its kind to date finds smokers diagnosed with cancer more likely to quit

    The largest study of its kind to date finds smokers diagnosed with cancer were more likely to quit than other smokers, supporting the hypothesis that a cancer diagnosis is a “teachable moment”...

  • Apr 20, 2015
    Large Study Finds Fewer than One in Ten Prostate Cancer Patients with Adverse Pathologic Features after Surgery Receive Radiation Therapy

    April 20, 2015--Despite strong evidence and guidelines supporting its use, post-surgical radiation therapy for prostate cancer patients at risk of recurrence is declining in the United States. The...

  • Apr 2, 2015
    Nation’s largest non-government, not-for-profit cancer research funder awards 100 grants totaling more than $45.6 million in first of two cycles for 2015

    April 2, 2015– The American Cancer Society, the largest non-government, not-for-profit funding source of cancer research in the United States, has awarded 100 national research and training...

  • Apr 1, 2015
    New edition of report summarizes risk factors, screening for major cancer sites

    April 1, 2015– While there has been substantial progress in some cancer control efforts in the past several decades, like reductions in smoking and increased utilization of cancer screening,...

  • Mar 2, 2015
    Older patients, Minorities Less Likely to Receive Adjuvant Systemic Therapy

    ATLANTA – March 2, 2015–A new American Cancer Society study finds that the use of adjuvant systemic therapy for localized gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs ) has significantly increased...

  • Feb 11, 2015

    ATLANTA – February 11, 2015– A new study suggests that current estimates significantly underestimate the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking. The Surgeon General estimates that...