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Feb 8, 2018
Five U.S. corporations each raised more than $1 million for the American Cancer Society in 2017. Through their commitment to the Partners Against Cancer program, these companies have engaged their...
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Jan 31, 2018Researchers call issue one of tobacco control’s most pressing
January 31, 2018– Although tobacco control measures have reduced overall smoking rates in the United States (from 42% in 1965 to 15% in 2015), a new report says several vulnerable subpopulations...
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Jan 25, 2018Statement from the American Cancer Society
This week the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine (NAS) released its comprehensive new report, Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes. The report acknowledges continuing...
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Jan 22, 2018New online auction to feature sneakers and ties signed by coaches
Thousands of basketball coaches across the country will once again trade their dress shoes for sneakers to wear with their suits during the annual Coaches vs. Cancer Suits And Sneakers Week,...
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Jan 4, 2018Nearly 2.4 million fewer deaths as a result of dropping rates
The cancer death rate dropped 1.7% from 2014 to 2015, continuing a drop that began in 1991 and has reached 26%, resulting in nearly 2.4 million fewer cancer deaths during that time. The data is...
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Dec 11, 2017Former NFL Player Christ Draft is Keynote Speaker
December 11, 2017– The National Lung Cancer Roundtable holds its inaugural meeting on December 11-12, 2017 in Bethesda, Md., the first major meeting for a new nationwide coalition of...
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Dec 11, 2017
The American Cancer Society Board of Directors has elected seven new members, and announced new key officer leadership positions for 2018. Their term begins on Jan. 1, 2018. "We welcome our new...
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Nov 30, 2017Centers Receiving American Cancer Society CHANGE Grants Show Greater Increase in Screening
A new study suggests that an American Cancer Society program has been effective in promoting improvements in colorectal cancer screening rates in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). The...
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Nov 21, 2017Four in ten cancer cases & deaths linked to modifiable risk factors
November 21, 2017– A new American Cancer Society study calculates the contribution of several modifiable risk factors to cancer occurrence, expanding and clarifying the role of known risk...
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Nov 20, 2017Statement of the American Cancer Society and other groups
Statement of the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, National African American Tobacco Prevention Network and the...
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Nov 16, 2017The 42nd Great American Smokeout is on November 16, 2017
The American Cancer Society is encouraging smokers to make a plan to quit smoking during the 42nd Great American Smokeout on November 16, 2017. Tobacco use is the single largest preventable cause...
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Nov 15, 2017Objective is to provide patients with rapid cancer diagnostics and appropriate care
Novartis, the American Society for Clinical Pathology and the American Cancer Society will work together to devise a common approach to improve access to cancer treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Nov 14, 2017Findings reinforce importance of equitable insurance coverage
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Nov 10, 2017American Cancer Society Coaches vs. Cancer® and NABC Celebrate 25 Years of Teaming Up Against CancerLegendary Coach Norm Stewart and founder of Coaches vs. Cancer honored with statue at the University of Missouri
What started as a challenge for fans to pledge money in the fight against cancer by Norm Stewart, the former University of Missouri Men's Basketball Coach, has evolved over the past 25 years into...
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Oct 19, 2017Investigators say walking has potential to significantly improve public’s health
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Oct 16, 2017Study concludes improving access to care could close much of racial gap
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Oct 10, 2017October 14 gala at Four Seasons Los Angeles at Beverly Hills raises funds for additional Society research grants with Tarek El-Moussa and Vanessa Bell Calloway
LOS ANGELES – The American Cancer Society’s Giants of Science gala on October 14 at the Four Seasons Los Angeles at Beverly Hills will honor global ambassador and jewelry designer, Simone I....
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Oct 5, 2017Expanded Initiative Benefits Early Detection and Risk Reduction Efforts for Multiple Cancers, including Breast Cancer
This year, the National Football League and the American Cancer Society (ACS) are expanding their efforts to support the fight against cancer through the "Crucial Catch: Intercept Cancer"...
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Oct 3, 2017Black/white mortality differences closing in several states
Overall breast cancer death rates dropped 39 percent between 1989 and 2015, averting 322,600 breast cancer deaths during those 26 years. And while black women continue to have higher breast cancer...
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Oct 3, 2017The $30 million facility will offer free lodging for cancer patients traveling to Houston for life-saving treatment.
The American Cancer Society will break ground at 10 a.m. EST, Tuesday, October 3, 2017, on the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation Hope Lodge. The $30 million facility will be the largest of its...
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Oct 2, 2017Nation’s largest non-government, not-for-profit funder of cancer research approves 78 grants totaling nearly $40 million in second of two cycles for 2017
ATLANTA – October 2, 2017– The American Cancer Society, the largest non-government, not-for-profit funding source of cancer research in the United States, has approved funding for 78 research...
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Oct 2, 2017Award honors accomplishments to the cancer fight
ATLANTA – October 2, 2017 – Two exemplary volunteers have been honored with the American Cancer Society 2018 Volunteer Leadership Award, a prestigious national honor for volunteers with...
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Oct 2, 2017Award honors individuals for research that improves quality of life of cancer patients
ATLANTA – October 2, 2017 – Outstanding volunteer Michael A. Andrykowski, Ph.D. has been honored with the 2018 American Cancer Society Trish Greene Quality of Life Award, a prestigious...
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Oct 2, 2017Award honors individuals who provide excellent cancer care
ATLANTA – October 2, 2017 – Seven outstanding individuals have been honored with the 2018 American Cancer Society Lane W. Adams Quality of Life Award, a prestigious national honor for their...
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Oct 2, 2017Award honors individuals or groups for their leadership with the Hope Lodge Program
ATLANTA – October 2, 2017 – Outstanding volunteers have been honored with the 2017 Margot S. Freudenberg National Volunteer Award, a prestigious honor given to volunteers for their...
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Sep 28, 2017
Thanks to earlier detection –through screening and increased awareness— and better treatments, a woman's risk of dying of breast dropped 38 percent between the late 1980s and 2014, translating...
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Sep 20, 2017Atlanta artist's fundraising campaign to benefit underserved communities across the country
Rapper Offset, of the chart-topping hip-hop trio Migos, is teaming up with the American Cancer Society and mobilizing his fellow artists, corporate sponsors and passionate fans to raise $500,000...
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Sep 19, 2017
WOONSOCKET, R.I., September 19, 2017 – The CVS Health Foundation, American Cancer Society and Truth Initiative today announced that grants are now available to help U.S. colleges and...
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Sep 19, 2017
ATLANTA – September 18, 2017 – The American Cancer Society today announced the publication of Cáncer de Seno Claro y Sencillo, an engaging question-and-answer book written to help newly...
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Sep 18, 2017Insight-Driven Campaign Engineered to Strengthen Support for Society Mission
The American Cancer Society (ACS) today unveiled a new integrated campaign that demonstrates how ACS differs from all other causes – it is the only nonprofit that attacks cancer from every...
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Sep 15, 2017Effort "a new twist out of the tobacco industry’s deadly playbook"
Below is a statement from the American Cancer Society in response to news that Philip Morris International (PMI) will fund a new effort called the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. "This attempt...
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Sep 8, 2017Study also shows small trend toward earlier stage cancer in Medicaid Expansion states
New research led by American Cancer Society researchers finds that after full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the percent of uninsured decreased substantially in Medicaid...
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Aug 29, 2017CDC estimates proposed R-rating would avert 1 million tobacco deaths among today’s children
A coalition of the nation’s most influential health organizations -- responding to a July 7 report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- have demanded that movie producers,...
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Aug 21, 2017
Participants in this year's American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer events can be superheroes in the cancer fight and look the part. Everyone who registers for a local Making...
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Aug 14, 2017
In an effort to bring attention to the importance of Community Health Centers in the fight against cancer, The American Cancer Society and the National Association of Community Health Centers...
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Aug 11, 2017Income Linked to More Efficient, ‘Weekend Warrior’ Behavior
New research finds that higher income individuals are more likely to be “weekend warriors,” getting most of their activity on only a few days a week, and also spend more time in sedentary pursuits.
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Aug 10, 2017People with personal experience with cancer help inform research grant selections
The American Cancer Society is seeking "Stakeholders," people with a strong personal interest in cancer to participate in its research grants peer review process.
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Aug 8, 2017Rise confined to white population
A new report finds that colorectal cancer mortality rates have increased in adults under 55 since the mid-2000s after falling for decades
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Jul 24, 2017Joint statement represents a unified strategy to foster cooperation across the cancer research community
Leading national cancer organizations release a joint position statement to guide the future of cancer health disparities research.
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Jul 20, 2017Award recognizes 23 volunteers across the country for their distinguished service
Atlanta, GA – July 20, 2017 – The American Cancer Society awarded 23 inspirational individuals from across the country the St. George National Award, one of the Society’s most prestigious...
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Jul 17, 2017Grants to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screenings in Five Communities Across the Country
The American Cancer Society has awarded $100,000 in grants to five community health centers across the country to reduce colon cancer disparities in American Indian and Alaska Native populations...
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Jul 6, 2017
July 6, 2017–A new report finds more than half of all cancer deaths in men in 2013 in China and more than a third of those in women were attributable to a group of potentially modifiable risk...
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Jun 29, 2017Assessing, addressing depressive symptoms may help prevent decline among vulnerable population
A new report finds cancer caregivers suffer a steady decline in physical health compared to controls, and that symptoms of depression were the only significant predictor of caregivers’ physical...
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Jun 29, 2017Grants will fund research aimed at decreasing rare but serious side effects associated with checkpoint inhibitors
A new partnership between the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) will fund much-needed research aimed at decreasing rare but serious, and at times even...
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Jun 20, 2017Market access agreements advance growing ACS-led effort to significantly improve cancer care in six sub-Saharan African countries
The American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) today announced two separate groundbreaking market access agreements with Pfizer Inc. and Cipla Inc. to expand...
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Jun 12, 2017Award honors coaches for their dedication to raising funds and awareness
Atlanta, GA – June 12, 2014 – American Cancer Society honors Temple University basketball coach Fran Dunphy and Saint Joseph’s basketball coach Phil Martelli with the 2017 Circle of Honor...
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Jun 11, 2017
Below is a statement from Gary M. Reedy, American Cancer Society Chief Executive Officer, on the appointment of Norman Sharpless, M.D., to serve as director of the National Cancer Institute....
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Jun 6, 2017Incidence, rising since the 1970s, expected to continue through at least 2030
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May 19, 2017Proportion of rare cancers likely to grow as use of molecular markers increases
About one in five cancer diagnoses in the United States is a rare cancer, according to a new American Cancer Society report. The report, appearing in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a...
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May 18, 2017Smokers who received frequent, tailored emails quit at rates rivaling medication
Smokers who received frequent, tailored emails with quitting tips, motivational messages, and social support had cessation rates rivaling that of the most effective medication available for...