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  • Nov 29, 2010
    Redesigned site features breakthrough group e-card technology, celebrity entertainer phone calls, great gifts, and birthday scheduling tools – all to help fight cancer

    ATLANTA – November 29, 2010 – The American Cancer Society, the official sponsor of birthdays, today announced exciting new details of its recently redesigned morebirthdays.com website – the...

  • Nov 18, 2010
    Technology has clear potential to create more birthdays. Still, study must not be over interpreted

    Below is a statement from American Cancer Society Chief Medical Officer Otis W. Brawley, M.D., regarding the National Lung Screening Trial. "The announcement that a well designed prospective...

  • Nov 10, 2010
    Lady Antebellum, Big Kenny and LoCash Cowboys join Keith Urban and other leading musicians and artists to create a world with less cancer and more birthdays

    ATLANTA – November 10, 2010 – The American Cancer Society, the official sponsor of birthdays, today announced that the band Lady Antebellum, along with country musicians Big Kenny and LoCash...

  • Nov 9, 2010
    American Cancer Society marks 35th Great American Smokeout

    ATLANTA – November 9, 2010 – In preparation for the Great American Smokeout on Thursday, November 18, the American Cancer Society encourages smokers to put their health first by making a...

  • Nov 5, 2010
    Nation’s Largest Voluntary Health Organization Elects Breast and Cervical Cancer Expert Edward E. Partridge, M.D. and Banking Industry Expert Stephen L. Swanson To Lead National Volunteer Board of Directors

    ATLANTA—November 5, 2010— The American Cancer Society, the nation’s largest voluntary health organization, elected 11 new officers to its volunteer 2010-2011 National Board of Directors...