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  • Dec 10, 2013
    Action Could Help Millions of Americans Exposed to Silica at Work

    ATLANTA December 10, 2013—A new review highlights new developments in understanding the health effects of silica, and calls for action to reduce illness and death from silica exposure at work,...

  • Dec 9, 2013
    American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study-3 Enrolls over 300,000 People to Help Finish the Fight against Cancer

    Atlanta, GA – December 9, 2013 – One hundred years ago, the American Cancer Society began the fight of a lifetime – the fight against cancer. Now, over 300,000 people from across the country...

  • Nov 12, 2013
    Trends among whites and African Americans go in opposite directions

    ATLANTA – November 12, 2013—Pancreatic cancer death rates in whites and blacks have gone in opposite directions over the past several decades in the United States, with the direction reversing...

  • Oct 7, 2013
    2013 Honor Brings Number of Society Funded Laureates to 47

    ATLANTA – October 7, 2013—James E. Rothman, one of three scientists receiving the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, is a former American Cancer Society research grantee, bringing the...

  • Apr 8, 2013
    175 Research and Training Grants to Fund Investigators at 93 Institutions

    The American Cancer Society, the largest non-government, not-for-profit funding source of cancer research in the United States, has awarded 175 national research and training grants totaling...


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