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Your Support Helps in the Fight Against Cancer
Research
- As the nation's largest source of private, nonprofit research funds, the American Cancer Society has distributed more than $2.5 billion to scientists since 1946.
- The Society has funded 38 Nobel Prize winning cancer researchers.
- The American Cancer Society funded researchers have played a role in the following discoveries: taxmoxifen, bone marrow transplants, the PSA test for early detection of prostate cancer, and the Pap test.
Education
- The Society provides information and support to cancer patients, as well as early detection and prevention services.
- For more information, please call 1-800-ACS-2345.
Advocacy
- The American Cancer Society addresses cancer issues at the local, state and federal levels of government.
Service
- Reach to Recovery provides one-on-one support for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients through a network of survivors.
- Look Good...Feel Better teaches patients techniques to cope with cosmetic side effects of treatments through licensed cosmetologists.
- Tell a Friend is a program where friends encourage each other to get mammograms.
- College & Camp Scholarships provide tuition assistance to childhood cancer survivors.
- Community Development Grants help community partners further local prevention, early detection and quality of life efforts.
- Hope Lodge is a home-away-from-home for cancer patients undergoing outpatient treatment.
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