Many treatment options are available to help fight against and defeat the disease. To help shed light on this challenging condition, Ed, a husband, father and stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) survivor, shared his journey from diagnosis to liver metastasis survivorship..
How does cancer support group help?
In a cancer support group, members can feel more comfortable sharing feelings and experiences that may be too difficult or too awkward to share with their family and friends. Being part of a group often creates a sense of belonging that helps each person feel more understood and less alone..
How does the American Cancer Society work?
We promote healthy lifestyles to help you prevent cancer. We research cancer and its causes to find more answers and better treatments. We provide information, answers, and support to people in every community who have been touched by cancer. And we do it all 24 hours a day, 7 days a week..
Resources for cancer patients
Other recent statistics on cancer survivorship : About 67% of cancer survivors have survived 5 or more years after diagnosis. About 18% of cancer survivors have survived 20 or more years after diagnosis..
What does the American cancer Society project?
We advocate for lifesaving policy changes. We promote healthy lifestyles to help you prevent cancer. We research cancer and its causes to find more answers and better treatments. We provide information, answers, and support to people in every community who have been touched by cancer..
What is the American Society for the Control of cancer?
The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a nationwide non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating cancer. Established in 1913, the society is organized into six geographical regions of both medical and lay volunteers operating in more than 250 Regional offices throughout the United States..
What is the purpose of the cancer Society?
We are here to help and support people with cancer and their whānau..
Along with avoiding tobacco products, staying at a healthy weight, staying active throughout life, and eating a healthy diet may greatly reduce a person's lifetime risk of developing or dying from cancer. These same behaviors are also linked with a lower risk of developing heart disease and diabetes.
Sometimes local voluntary groups offer sitting services. Someone comes to stay with you while your relative goes out. Good neighbour schemes offer befriending or practical help with shopping or transport. Local cancer support groups often offer practical help.
The American Cancer Society offers programs and services to help you during and after cancer treatment. Below are some of the resources we provide. We can also
What are ACS cancer programs?
At the forefront of setting patient-centered standards for cancer care The ACS Cancer Programs provide tools, resources, and data that enable cancer programs to deliver comprehensive, high-quality, multidisciplinary, evidence-based, patient-centered care to patients with cancer and diseases of the breast
What does the American Cancer Society do?
At the American Cancer Society, we have a vision to end cancer as we know it, for everyone
We're improving the lives of cancer patients and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer
Who is the American Cancer Society board?
The Board is composed entirely of volunteers from the medical and lay communities
With a presence in more than 5,000 communities, the American Cancer Society is working to support people facing all types of cancer, in every community
American cancer society programs
American nonprofit advocacy organization
The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network is a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society. It was founded in September 2001 to directly lobby the goals of the American Cancer Society, which is subject to restrictions on advocacy activities because of its tax classification. ACS CAN works to make cancer a national priority. Specifically, it advocates for better access to care, cancer prevention and early detection programs, cancer research funding, regulation of tobacco by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, better quality of life for cancer patients, and attempts to raise awareness of and reduce cancer disparities. Members include cancer survivors, caregivers, patients, volunteers, and students, including Colleges Against Cancer.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is a professional organization representing physicians of all oncology sub-specialties who care for people with cancer. Founded in 1964 by Fred Ansfield, Harry Bisel, Herman Freckman, Arnoldus Goudsmit, Robert Talley, William Wilson, and Jane C. Wright, it has nearly 45,000 members worldwide.
The Great American Smokeout is an annual intervention
The Great American Smokeout is an annual intervention event on the third Thursday of November by the American Cancer Society. Approximately 40 million American adults still smoke, and tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the country. The event challenges people to quit on that day, or use the day to make a plan to quit.
U.S. nonprofit organization
The National Children's Cancer Society (NCCS) is an American charity based in St. Louis, Missouri, which provides emotional, financial and educational support to children with cancer, their families and survivors.
U.S. nonprofit organization
The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC), previously known as the International Society for Biological Therapy of Cancer (iSBTc), is a professional society of scientists, academicians, researchers, clinicians, government representatives, and industry leaders from around the world dedicated to improving outcomes in patients with cancer by advancing the science and application of cancer immunotherapy. Currently, SITC has more than 2,400 members, representing 22 medical specialties from 42 countries around the world, who are engaged in the research and treatment of cancer.
