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Feb 7, 2019Groundbreaking partnership aims to raise $11 million to fund the most innovative and cutting-edge researchThe 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, 2019Racial gap narrowing while socioeconomic inequalities widenA 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, 2018Data from Nova Scotia shows no increase in number of illicit cigarette seizedOctober 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, 2018Second article in American Cancer Society’s cancer control Blueprint seriesThe 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, 2018New data highlight high prostate and colorectal cancer burden among men in Puerto RicoOctober 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...