​All volunteers asked to participate, as one way to help advance our health equity work The American Cancer Society and ACS CAN work every day to achieve our mission to save lives, celebrate lives, and lead the f ...

​Cancer mortality rates are highest in non-Hispanic Black AYAs, particularly femalesA new ACS report examining cancer in adolescents and young adults (ages 15 to 39) provides updated estimates of the cancer burden in ...

On Sept. 15, more than 700 cancer patients, survivors, and their loved ones from all 50 states dialed into calls and logged onto virtual meetings to ask members of Congress to make the fight against cancer a national prior ...

​One of the immediate outcomes from the meeting was that the group decided to stay together as an advisory group and will meet regularly.On Sept. 9, our Executive Team and three Board members met virtually with the le ...

​1 in 389 children in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer by age 15; learn what ACS is doing to helpCancer doesn’t fight fair at any age, but it’s devastating when it occurs in children. Approximately 1 in 389 children ...

​African Americans are 20% more likely to get colorectal cancer and 40% more likely to die from it than other groupsFollowing the devastating news of the death of the world's beloved Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, from c ...