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... advocacy affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and advanced proven tobacco control measures. We’re more determined than ever to stand together with our volunteers to end cancer as we ...

... 10 years the program has reduced smoking rates to the lowest we have ever seen and saved the state over $17.7 billion dollars in smoking related health care costs.   We would like to thank you for your continued commitment, and for the important role you played in a very successful legislative ...

... back and forth between the labs and the clinics as they cooperate to develop new screening tools and drugs to prevent cancer and provide better care for cancer patients. Where does this gold standard bi-directional research happen? At the 40 National Cancer Institute-designated ... by far the top funder of cancer research. No other funding source comes close. In fact, National Cancer Institute or the National Institutes of Health funded 75 percent of the research conducted at Norris Cotton in the past 10 years. Nearly $53 million in medical research funds come to New ...

... session.” How Do You Measure Up? rates states in nine specific areas of public policy that can help fight cancer, including increase access to care through Medicaid, funding for screening programs, smoke-free laws, cigarette tax levels, funding for tobacco prevention and cessation ... affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem.  ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary people ...