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How to Read the New Sunscreen Labels

Look closely at the sunscreen you buy and you may notice different wording on the label. This is the first summer that the FDA’s new labeling requirements are in effect.

Cancer Prevention Tips for the Men in Your Life

As Father's Day approaches, help the men in your life stay healthy by encouraging them to adopt healthy habits. Eating better, exercising more, and getting recommended screenings are all part of the equation.

World No Tobacco Day

May 31 is World No Tobacco Day, sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) to highlight the risks of tobacco use and advocate for policies to reduce smoking.

A Backyard Chef's Guide to Healthier Grilling

Getting your family and friends together for a barbeque is one of the perks of the season, but backyard chefs should beware: some research suggests that cooking meats at very high temperatures creates chemicals (heterocyclic amines, or HAs) that might increase cancer risk.

How to Stay Safe in the Sun

The Friday before Memorial Day is Don’t Fry Day – a day to raise awareness of sun safety and encourage everyone to take steps to protect their skin.

The American Cancer Society Marks 100 Years

This May the American Cancer Society is turning 100 years old. It’s marking the occasion by celebrating the many successes the organization has contributed to in the fight against cancer during the last century.

The ABCs of Cancer Testing: Decoding Common Abbreviations

If you're not fluent in medical abbreviations quite yet, this list of common acronyms and their meanings can help you get in the know so you can communicate more effectively with your care team.

Volunteers: Motivated to Help Others

Many cancer survivors are moved by their own experience to help others facing diagnosis and treatment. Find inspiration and hope in these stories of volunteers who are making a difference in the fight against cancer.

Minority Cancer Awareness: Everyday Steps to Help Lower Your Risk

The American Cancer Society and other groups are raising awareness about cancer among minorities in honor of National Minority Health Month and National Minority Cancer Awareness Week.

Colon Cancer Prevention and Early Detection: What You Need to Know

Over the past few decades, more people have been surviving colon cancer, and fewer people have been dying from it.

Look and Feel Your Best During Cancer Treatment

Treatment for cancer may cause changes in your appearance that you may or may not have expected. These can include hair loss, fingernail changes, skin discoloration, weight gain, and weight loss.

Living with Prostate Cancer

Increasingly, studies show that staying at a healthy weight, eating well, and maintaining an active lifestyle after a prostate cancer diagnosis might lower the risk of dying from prostate cancer.

World Cancer Day 2013

February 4th is World Cancer Day, a time when organizations and individuals around the world send a message: Ending cancer should be a global health priority.

Cervical Cancer: Testing Can Find it Early and Even Prevent It

During the past few decades, screening has reduced deaths from cervical cancer, as doctors have been able to find cancer early and treat it, or prevent it from ever developing.

Tips for Your Next Physical

These tips from the US Department of Health and Human Services can help you get ready for your appointment, especially if you haven’t been to the doctor in a while.

Resolve to Help Researchers Learn More About Cancer

The new year is a natural time to try for a new start. Many people resolve to lose weight, exercise more, or quit smoking. But did you know you can help researchers learn more about cancer?

Holiday Words of Inspiration from Cancer Survivors

Dealing with cancer is never easy, but it can be even more difficult during the holidays.

Eat Right and Stay Active While Traveling

December brings travel plans for many of us – whether we’re visiting family this season or vacationing. But you don’t have to take a vacation from eating right and exercising.

Coping With Grief During the Holidays

Losing a loved one to cancer is a painful and difficult experience. The death of a loved one is always traumatic, but during the holidays, the feelings of loss can be even more pronounced.

Cancer During the Holidays

The holidays can be a difficult time of year when you or a loved one is facing cancer.

Eating When You Have No Appetite

During treatment for cancer, eating right is important. Some people continue to enjoy food and have a normal appetite throughout their treatment. Others have days when they don’t feel like eating.

The Caregiver’s Kitchen: Cooking for a Person with Cancer

Caring for a person with cancer means meeting their most basic needs, and there’s no need more basic than food.

Frequently Asked Questions About Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is one of the more common cancers diagnosed in the US, and it’s often discovered in a later stage when it’s harder to treat. In 2012, an estimated 226,160 new cases will be diagnosed.

The Truth About Kids and Smoking

Every day, more than 3,800 children in the US smoke their first cigarette, according to the Surgeon General, putting themselves at risk for nicotine addiction and diseases including lung cancer.

NFL Veteran Chris Draft Tackles Lung Cancer Awareness

Former NFL linebacker Chris Draft wants everybody to know the disturbing facts about lung cancer: that it kills more people than breast, prostate, colon, liver, and melanoma skin cancer combined.

Art Portrays Cancer Survivor’s Journey in New ACS Book

Author Sally Loughridge did not set out to write a book. The American Cancer Society book "Rad Art: A Journey Through Radiation Treatment" was her way of surviving radiation for breast cancer.

Understanding Hormone Therapy

Hormone therapies work with the natural properties of these substances to relieve symptoms and even fight diseases, including cancer.

Exercise Can Help Cancer Patients’ Quality of Life

A lifestyle that includes physical activity can be beneficial for just about everyone, no matter their age, and as experts now know, even if they have cancer.

Four Ways to Reduce Your Breast Cancer Risk

About 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer at some point during her life. While you can’t change some risk factors, there are things you can do that may lower your breast cancer risk.

When Your Friend Has Breast Cancer

Even with cancer as an all-too-common household word, we are often unsure of what to say – or, equally important, what not to say – when someone we know is diagnosed with breast cancer.

Breast Cancer Discoveries on the Horizon

What if there was an easier way to find out whether a breast tumor was malignant? What if a weakness was found in triple-negative breast cancer? What if we knew how breast cancer spread to bone?

Breast Cancer Symptoms: What You Need to Know

Breast cancer doesn’t usually cause symptoms in its early stages. But following screening guidelines doesn’t mean you should ignore changes in your breasts.

Stacy London Offers Style Tips for Women with Breast Cancer

Stacy London is known for making over dull wardrobes on TLC’s What Not to Wear. But she’s also using her fashion prowess to help women with cancer get their confidence back.

Your Body After Breast Cancer

Newlywed Sarah Lien didn’t want her husband seeing her bald. When they married two years earlier, the tips of her vibrant hair would brush against her face and tickle her healthy pink cheeks.

Prostate Cancer Screening FAQ

Screening – or testing to find a disease in people without symptoms – can help find some types of cancer early, when it’s more easily treated.

Five Ways to Fight Breast Cancer

The fight against breast cancer takes place on many fronts, not just in the treatment center. Here are 5 ways to use your time, your skills, and your voice to make a difference.

What to Know About Getting a Mammogram

Getting a mammogram every year is important in finding breast cancer early.

Hope Lodge Founder Turns 105

Margot Freudenberg, the American Cancer Society’s longest serving volunteer, still works to drum up donations for the program she founded, the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge.

New ACS Book for Children Addresses Grief

Ten-year-old Emily and 7-year-old Ben have just lost their mother to cancer in a new book for children, “And Still They Bloom” written by Amy Rovere and published by the American Cancer Society.

‘Don’t Fry Day’ Is All About Healthy Skin

The Friday before Memorial Day is designated Don’t Fry Day – a day to raise awareness of sun safety and encourage everyone to take steps to protect their skin.

What You Should Know About Colon Cancer

Over the past few decades, more people have been surviving colon cancer, and fewer people have been dying from it. This is thanks to improvements in colon cancer screening and treatment.

World Cancer Day 2012

February 4th is World Cancer Day, a time when organizations and individuals around the world send a message: Ending cancer should be a global health priority.

Fighting Cancer: A Team Effort

It may not be time for March Madness quite yet, but there are plenty of reasons to be excited about basketball season – especially when so many teams are helping fight cancer.

Radon Gas and Lung Cancer

Getting your home tested for radon can help protect you and your family from a key cause of lung cancer.

Cancer Survivors and Caregivers Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro

About 35 cancer survivors and caregivers have begun a week-long climb to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa.

Workshops Help Survivors Cope During and After Cancer Treatment

A new series of free workshops from Cancer Care offers survivors and their loved ones practical information to help them cope with the concerns that can arise after treatment ends.

Limit Alcohol to Lower Cancer Risk

Having one drink at a party isn’t likely to cause you much harm. But routinely having more than 1 or 2 drinks per day could raise your cancer risk.

NFL Supports Fight Against Breast Cancer

The National Football League is joining the American Cancer Society to raise awareness about breast screenings and to raise money to help fight breast cancer.

What You Can Do About Breast Cancer

What you need to know about breast cancer testing, treatment, and living with the disease.

New Web Site Helps Cancer Patients Connect

The American Cancer Society is offering a new Web site that promises to help people facing cancer more easily find the peers, resources, and information they need.

What You Need to Know About Prostate Cancer

What you need to know about prostate cancer testing, treatment and living with the disease.

Documentary ‘Not As I Pictured’ Chronicles Filmmaker’s Personal Cancer Story

When John Kaplan found out at age 48 that he had a rare form of lymphoma, he made a documentary about his treatment and recovery.

Bang! Zap! Pow!

The newest graphic novel in a series designed to explain cancer to children depicts superhero medical experts and cartoon cancer cells.

Look Good… Feel Better Offers Virtual Workshop

The American Cancer Society Look Good… Feel Better program is hosting an online session to show women how to use wigs and makeup during cancer treatment.

Healthy Habits Men Need to Know

As Father's Day approaches, help the men in your life stay healthy by encouraging them to follow the American Cancer Society's guidelines for cancer screening, nutrition, and physical activity.

Be a Healthier Cancer Survivor

Now that you’re cancer-free, be sure you’re doing everything you can to safeguard your good health.

Protect Your Skin on Don't Fry Day

The Friday before Memorial Day is Don’t Fry Day – a day to raise awareness of sun safety and encourage everyone to take steps to protect their skin.

Everyday Steps to Help Lower Your Cancer Risk

Every April the American Cancer Society and other organizations work together to raise awareness about cancer among minorities in honor of National Minority Cancer Awareness Week, celebrated this year April 17-23.

Pick Winners, Fight Cancer During March Madness

Expert Voices

Get timely insight on cancer topics from Expert Voices, our new blog by the experts at the American Cancer Society.

What You Should Know About Colorectal Cancer

Improving Patients’ Quality of Life Through Palliative Care

The American Cancer Society is being honored for its efforts in the field of palliative care.

Diet and Breast Cancer Risk: What’s the Connection?

Despite being an area of intense research, the role of diet in breast cancer risk remains unclear.

Experts See Progress, Hope in Battle Against Childhood Cancers

Survival has improved dramatically for kids with cancer over the past 30 years.

Ovarian Cancer: Common Questions About Symptoms and Screening

For years, ovarian cancer was known as the "silent" cancer because it rarely produced any symptoms and many women didn't find out they had it until the cancer was very advanced.

Renew Your Resolutions

Committing to living a healthier lifestyle can make a difference any month of the year.

Learn More About the New and Improved Cancer.org

This summer, the American Cancer Society will introduce a new and improved cancer.org that is designed to better meet your needs – whenever and however you need us.

Cancer Survivors Spread Message of Early Detection

Although there are many signs the disparity gap is narrowing, cancer continues to take a hefty toll on minority communities.

iPhone App Helps You Celebrate More Birthdays

Own an iPhone or iPod Touch device? The American Cancer Society, the Official Sponsor of Birthdays, has developed a free iPhone application that will make it easier for you to remember the birthdays of the people you care about.

What You Need to Know About Colon Cancer Screening

Colon cancer is the 3rd most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women in the US, and the 3rd leading cause of cancer death in men and women.

Relay For Life Family Gets ABC Home Makeover

On Sunday, January 31, at 8 p.m. EST, set your dial to ABC and gather with your local Relay For Life team, committee, or community to watch colon cancer survivor and Relay participant Tricia Creasey and her family on a special episode of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."

Tips for a Healthier 2010

Making resolutions is easy; keeping them is hard.

Tips for a Healthier 2010

This year, if your goals involve eating better and exercising more, make your resolutions stick by enlisting the help of these tips and tools.

Caregivers: How to Handle the Holidays

The holiday season is meant to be a time of joy and celebration, but this time of year can be stressful, too.

Cancer Pain: Don't Suffer in Silence

Pain is not always a part of having cancer, but when it is, there's no need to suffer in silence.

Coping with Pain

Whether it's from a headache, a broken bone, or something more serious, all of us have experienced pain at one time or another.

Tips for a Healthier Thanksgiving

Ah, Thanksgiving: the air is cooler, the colors are vibrant, and our plates are full – both with busy schedules and hearty fall fare.

Swine Flu: What Cancer Patients Need to Know

News of a growing outbreak of swine influenza A (H1N1) in the United States and other countries has many people worried about their health.

Protect Yourself From Breast Cancer

If you see pink everywhere you turn this month, here's why: October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time when survivors, advocates, and health organizations strive to raise awareness of the progress we're making together in fighting this disease – and the things women can do to protect themselves.

Give Back, Celebrate Service on September 11th

In April 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, which expanded volunteer opportunities for Americans and established September 11th as a National Day of Service and Remembrance.

Heed Early Warning Signs of Ovarian Cancer

Historically, ovarian cancer has been called the "silent killer" because symptoms often become apparent only when the cancer has spread and is harder to treat.

Common Prostate Cancer Questions Answered

Prostate cancer affects nearly 200,000 men in the United States every year. The good news is that more than 2 million men in the United States who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in their lives are still alive today.

Tips for a Healthier School Year

Whether you welcome it with glee (no more kids in the house!) or feel a twinge of dread (goodbye, lazy days by the pool), school is starting up again.

Cancer Survivor Gives Voice To Young Adults Fighting Cancer

By 2020, the number of cancer survivors is expected to grow from 11 million to 20 million.

ACS Researchers: Tanning Bed Use Among Minors Still a Problem

American Cancer Society researchers have played a major role in advancing our understanding of all aspects of cancer, from prevention and early detection to treatment and survivorship.

How to Control Your Cancer Risk

While recent research has shown that racial disparity in cancer death rates is decreasing, minority groups continue to bear a greater cancer burden than whites. However, there are things you can do to help reduce your cancer risk.

Navigating Difficult Waters: The History of the Patient Navigators

In the 45 years he's practiced as a surgical oncologist at Harlem Hospital in New York – 25 as director of surgery – Harold P. Freeman, MD, has been frustrated by the high numbers of women he's seen with late stage breast cancer.

Coping with Stress in Uncertain Times

Times are tough, and with everything from jobs, houses, and nest eggs on the line, stress levels are high.

Prostate Cancer Screening: What Do the Recent Studies Mean?

Two important studies about prostate cancer were published online March 18, 2009 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Managing Cancer Costs in Tough Economic Times

Even in the best of times, paying for cancer care is difficult.

Winter Weather Workouts

Don't let cold weather put your exercise routine on ice.

Don't Lose Your Resolve to Live Healthier

Sticking to those New Year's resolutions can be tough, especially if you've put major lifestyle changes like quitting smoking, getting more exercise, or eating better on your list.

Lodges Bring Hope, Holiday Cheer to Cancer Patients

Coping with a cancer over the holidays can be overwhelming, especially if you're faced with having to travel hundreds of miles from home to get treatment.

A Personal Stake in Cancer Research

Society Stakeholder Program Seeks Committed People to Help Choose Research Grants

New Book Offers Practical Advice and Hope for Cancer Survivors

If you were recently diagnosed with cancer or are currently going through cancer treatment, you will find a lot of practical advice and encouragement in Julie K. Silver, MD's new book, What Helped Get Me Through: Cancer Survivors Share Wisdom and Hope, published by the American Cancer Society.