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  • Oct 1, 2019
    Nation’s largest non-government, not-for-profit source of cancer research funding awards 75 grants totaling more than $38 million in second of two cycles for 2019

    The American Cancer Society, the largest non-government, not-for-profit funding source of cancer research in the United States, has approved funding for 75 research and training grants totaling...

  • Aug 15, 2019
    New Position Will Lead Integration of ACS’ Research and Cancer Control Program to Aggressively Pursue 2035 Challenge Goal to Reduce Cancer Mortality by 40 Percent

    William G. Cance, M.D., has been selected as the American Cancer Society’s chief medical and scientific officer. Dr. Cance will lead the integration of ACS’ Research and Cancer Control...

  • Jun 13, 2019
    Four multidisciplinary teams to be funded to study survivorship

    In a new collaboration, the American Cancer Society and Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance have joined forces to fund multidisciplinary research projects to explore new ways of detecting, treating,...

  • May 29, 2019
    Surprising finding suggests obesity epidemic may not fully explain increasing rates

    Early-onset colorectal cancer –cancer occurring before age 50—is rising most rapidly in Western states, where healthy behaviors are prominent, according to a new study. The authors of the...

  • Apr 1, 2019
    Nation’s largest non-government, not-for-profit cancer research funder awards 93 grants totaling more than $40 million in first of two cycles for 2019

    The American Cancer Society approves funding for 93 research and training grants totaling more than $40 million in first of two cycles for 2019.

  • Feb 7, 2019
    Groundbreaking partnership aims to raise $11 million to fund the most innovative and cutting-edge research

    The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, the largest charitable funder of childhood cancer research grants, and the American Cancer Society (ACS), a health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer,...

  • Jan 8, 2019
    Racial gap narrowing while socioeconomic inequalities widen

    A steady, 25-year decline has resulted in a 27% drop in the overall cancer death rate in the United States, translating to approximately 2.6 million fewer cancer deaths between 1991 and 2016. The...

  • Oct 12, 2018
    Data from Nova Scotia shows no increase in number of illicit cigarette seized

    October 12, 2018—Contrary to the tobacco industry’s assertions, there was no surge in illicit cigarettes after a 2015 ban on menthol cigarette sales in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia....

  • Oct 10, 2018
    Second article in American Cancer Society’s cancer control Blueprint series

    The highest priority in a national cancer control plan must be expansion of tobacco control—the intervention with the largest potential health benefits—according to a new American Cancer...

  • Oct 4, 2018
    New data highlight high prostate and colorectal cancer burden among men in Puerto Rico

    October 4, 2018– The cancer burden in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory with a 99% Hispanic population, is substantially different from that of Hispanics in the continental U.S., according to Cancer...

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