Press Releases
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Dec 10, 2013Action 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,...
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Dec 9, 2013American 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...
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Nov 12, 2013Trends 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...
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Nov 11, 2013
ATLANTA – Nov. 11, 2013 – Without intervention, an alarming rise in tobacco use is on the horizon for Africa over the next century, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society....
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Nov 6, 2013Statement on a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing that about 1 in 3 adults aged 50 to 75 have not received any of the recommended screening tests for colorectal cancer
“Colon cancer screening saves lives, but millions of Americans aren’t getting screened. Screening will substantially reduce their risk of suffering and death due to colon cancer. “The...
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Oct 7, 20132013 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...
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Oct 4, 2013Walking an hour per day associated with lower risk
ATLANTA –October 4, 2013—A large new American Cancer Society study adds to increasing evidence that physical activity reduces the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Researchers say...
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Oct 1, 2013Rates increasing among African-Americans; reasons unclear
ATLANTA -- Breast cancer incidence rates increased slightly among African American women from 2006 to 2010, bringing those rates closer to the historically higher rates among white women,...
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Sep 17, 2013
Walgreens and its Customers Enable $6.4 Million Gift to Assist with Community-Based Cancer Education and Screening Programs ATLANTA, Sept. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Cancer...
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Sep 4, 2013Sally G. Cowal Brings Health, Government and Nonprofit Experience to New Role
ATLANTA – September 4, 2013 – The American Cancer Society has named Sally G. Cowal, a former U.S. ambassador and U.S. Foreign Service Officer, senior vice president, Global Health. Cowal...