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American Cancer Society Guidelines for the Early Detection of Cancer
American Cancer Society Guidelines for the Early Detection of Cancer
The American Cancer Society recommends these cancer screening guidelines for most adults. Screening tests are used to find cancer before a person has any symptoms.
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Diet and Physical Activity: What’s the Cancer Connection?
Diet and Physical Activity: What’s the Cancer Connection?
How much do daily habits like diet and exercise affect your risk for cancer? Much more than you might think. Research has shown that poor diet and not being active are 2 key factors that can increase a person’s cancer risk. The good news is that you do something about this.
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TREATMENT
Cancer treatment is improving, saving lives and extending survival for many people. Depending on various factors, treatment options may include surgery, radiation, immunotherapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, or targeted, local therapy, among others. These treatments might be used alone or in combination. Clinical trials evaluate the benefits of new therapies and broaden the options available to patients.
This section includes treatment trends for cancer sites for which there are available data trends and definitive treatment guidelines based on rigorous evidence of benefit to patients, including bladder, breast, colorectal, kidney, lung, ovarian, and prostate cancers.
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Know about your health
You’re smart. You’re responsible. You’re highly motivated to keep your family healthy – and having adequate health insurance coverage is part of that. But learning what you need to know about insurance in order to make good decisions can be overwhelming. That’s where we can help.
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Research is at the heart of the American Cancer Society’s mission. The Society has been funding cancer prevention research since 1946.as we relentlessly pursue
The answers that help us understand how to prevent all cancer types. The American Cancer Society first began conducting long-term prospective studies in the 1950s. The participants provide initial lifestyle, medical, or behavioral information, and then are followed over time to assess their health outcomes to determine how those outcomes are related to the previously collected data. Previous long-term Society studies have played a major role in cancer prevention, including demonstrating the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, the impact of being overweight or obese on risk of cancer occurrence and death, and much more.
FOR EXTERNAL RESEARCHERS:
American Cancer Society\'s Epidemiology Research Program investigators recognize the value of and welcome externally proposed studies. Therefore, investigators not employed by our program may request access to CPS data and/or biospecimens to conduct a study. For further information, please review our Data Access Policies and Procedures.
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How Cancer Prevention Studies Save Lives
Current Cancer Prevention Studies
History of Cancer Prevention Studies
There has been a recent shift in focus from the traditional role of compiling and interpreting surveillance data to a greater focus on original research on international tobacco control with particular emphasis on the economics of tobacco control. At the American Cancer Society, this work is done in collaboration with national and international investigators and serves to build capacity for collection and analysis of economic data to provide the evidence base for tobacco control in low- and middle-income countries
Behavioral Research to Prevent Cancer
The American Cancer Society was one of the first organizations to recognize the importance of behavioral and psychosocial research in the prevention and control of cancer, and to develop a specific program for funding extramural research in this area, including research into the impact of cancer on the family, the quality of life, health behaviors, and health care of cancer survivors, smoking cessation, and other issues and problems of cancer.
Grants in Prevention Research
The best way to outwit cancer is to prevent it altogether. That\'s why the American Cancer Society dedicates millions of dollars each year to fund prevention research, including over $7 million in 2012, to help scientists understand the role of diet and physical activity, screenings, vaccines, hormone use and other exposures in cancer development.
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