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May 31, 2023
ATLANTA, MAY 31, 2023 – The American Cancer Society has announced the launch of 160 projects focused on improving breast, colorectal, cervical and lung cancer screening rates or HPV vaccination...
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May 2, 2023Latest American Cancer Society Prevention and Early Detection study also shows disparities persisted during pandemic
In a new report, American Cancer Society (ACS) researchers discovered both favorable and unfavorable changes in major cancer risk factors, preventive behaviors and services, and screenings in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Apr 18, 2023Researchers at the American Cancer Society stress efforts to decrease e-cigarette use in younger adults to prevent nicotine addiction risk
A new study by researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS) shows almost three-quarters of a million more adults in the United States, ages 18-29 years, used e-cigarettes between 2019-2021 during the period that spanned the EVALI outbreak (E-cigarette or vaping product use–associated lung injury) and COVID-19 pandemic.
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Apr 11, 2023
In a new study, American Cancer Society (ACS) researchers discovered deaths with cancer as the underlying or primary cause decreased in the United States during the first year of the pandemic in 2020 compared to 2019, continuing the decreasing trend from prior years. In contrast, mortality rates with cancer as a contributing cause were higher in 2020 compared to 2019, reversing the decreasing trend from prior years.
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Mar 7, 2023
The 80% in Every Community National Achievement Awards is a program designed to recognize individuals and organizations who are dedicating their time, talent and expertise to advancing needed initiatives that support the shared goal to reach colorectal screening rates of 80% and higher in communities across the nation.
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Feb 23, 2023American Cancer Society researchers stress the need to improve access to cancer screenings
According to a new, large study led by researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS), millions of people in the United States continued to miss critical cancer screening tests during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Oct 27, 2022
Overall cancer death rates continued to decline among men, women, children, and adolescents and young adults in every major racial and ethnic group in the United States from 2015 to 2019,...
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Oct 27, 2022
Según el Informe Anual a la Nación sobre el Estado del Cáncer, las tasas de mortalidad general por cáncer siguen en descenso en los hombres, las mujeres, los niños y los adolescentes y...
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Oct 13, 2022
New findings by the American Cancer Society show disparities in mortality rates by educational attainment as a measure of socio-economic status considerably increased in 2020 compared to prior years.
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Sep 29, 2022
From March through December 2020, more than 16,000 cancer deaths were due to complications of COVID-19 in the United States, according to a new study led by researchers at the American Cancer Society.