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  • 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...

  • Jan 7, 2013
    Special feature highlights trends in HPV-associated cancers and HPV vaccination coverage levels

    The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975–2009 shows that overall cancer death rates continued to decline in the United States among both men and women, among all major...

  • Oct 12, 2012
    Direct Cancer Experience Improves Selection Process

    ATLANTA – October 12, 2012—Eighteen individuals with a strong personal interest in cancer have been chosen to participate in the American Cancer Society’s research grants peer review process...