Press Releases

A new study found that incidence rates for malignant brain and other central nervous system (CNS) tumors declined by 0.8% annually during 2008 through 2017 in the United States for all ages...

A new American Cancer Society study links obesity with substantial economic burden of nearly $20 billion in 2016 among long-term cancer survivors in the United States with one-third attributable...

Last week, the FDA approved, and the CDC recommended a COVID-19 booster for immunocompromised cancer patients. This morning, Dr. Karen E. Knudsen, CEO of the American Cancer Society and American...

A new study suggests structural racism measured by the racial economic mobility gap between Black and White persons with a similar parental income (as an indicator of similar childhood...

A new population-based study show that although national lung cancer screening (LCS) rates decreased in some states, overall LCS rates remained low and unchanged, and 19 states experienced...

As COVID-19 variants cause more sickness and death among those who are not vaccinated across the United States, the American Cancer Society is speaking out in support of vaccination mandates to...

A new study finds that the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to significant disruptions in breast, colorectal and cervical cancer screenings among federally qualified health systems (FQHS) spanning 15...

Overall cancer death rates continue to decline in men and women for all racial and ethnic groups in the United States, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer....

A new study finds colorectal cancer (CRC) survival rates remains low in Sub-Saharan African countries and varies considerably by human development index (HDI). Patients from high-HDI areas had an...

A new study finds evidence for adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on declines in cancer detection and surgical treatments. The study, appearing in JNCI: The Journal of the National Cancer...