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At age 60, Dave Wesley of Placerville, Calif. says it’s sobering that he’s lived longer than his father.

American Cancer Society Discovery Shops help support the fight against cancer through the sale of high quality, gently used, donated merchandise.

Ann Dickson, Major Gifts Director

The Discovery Shop in Auburn, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Bakersfield, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Belmont Shores, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Beverly Hills, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Brain tumor survivor Sarah Delawder says it took a lifechanging experience to learn to be thankful for the little things in life – things she says she didn’t even notice before.

So far, nothing this year has gone the way Paola Chavez expected. She had planned to begin the year newly married, living in Mexico, and planning her future with her new husband. Instead, she was diagnosed with breast cancer around the same time she learned she was pregnant.

Biography of Brian Martorana, Vice President of Estate and Gift Planning for the American Cancer Society

The Discovery Shop in Burbank, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

For over 40 years, the Society has owned and operated these specialty resale stores, featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Camarillo, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Chico, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The American Cancer Society helps find answers to critical questions about colon and rectal cancer. What causes it? How can it be successfully prevented, detected, and treated? How can the people with one of these cancers improve their quality of life? Studying questions like these has helped improve screening and treatment methods, which has contributed to substantial decreases in deaths from colon and rectal cancer over the past 20 years.

If you (or a loved one) have cancer and your treatment plan needs to change due to a recent natural disaster, the following questions and answers may help you figure out what you need to do to get your treatment back on schedule.

The Discovery Shop in Corona Del Mar, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Find American Cancer Society research grants and health professional training grants by state.

Contact information for Daniel Widner

The Discovery Shop in Elk Grove, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Emily McNaughton, Director of Major Gifts for the American Cancer Society covering Silicon Valley/Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, San Benito, and Monterey Counties in California.

Cancer advocate Erica Frazier has a unique perspective on volunteering. She believes the American Cancer Society chose her instead of the other way around.

The Discovery Shop in Eureka, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Commercial photographer Fernando Decillis chose the American Cancer Society for volunteering because it’s people-centered. He says, “I wanted to help tell the stories of people who benefit from the work the American Cancer Society does.”

The Discovery Shop in Folsom, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Fremont, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Fresno, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Gail Robson, Sr. Director, Major and Planned Gifts covers Imperial, Orange, and San Diego counties in California.

Gail Robson is Senior Director of Major and Planned Gifts in California covereding San Bernardino, Orange, and Riverside Counties.

The American Cancer Society Mission Boost grant helps rescue science that sometimes falls into the valley of death, where promising research comes to an abrupt end because it otherwise can’t get the funding it needs to cross the bridge between discovery and helping patients. Read about 4 of the cancer researchers who are using Mission Boost grants today.

The physical and mental conditioning Michael Veltri developed during the course of his training in martial arts served him well when he faced his greatest challenge, cancer.

If you are a cancer patient or caregiver and you learn a hurricane, wildfire, or other natural disaster is coming your way, take steps to prepare in advance.

The Discovery Shop in Huntington Beach, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Biography of Jeff Klaas, Executive Vice President of the American Cancer Society's West Region.

The Discovery Shop in Laguna Niguel, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Vicky Davis, 55, says she’s finally beginning to feel like herself again. She has only 3 more treatments of Herceptin (trastuzumab) – a targeted therapy drug – to treat her breast cancer and she’s anticipating breast reconstruction surgery in a few months.

When soft tissue sarcoma survivor Apreal Cloutier first noticed a lump on the back of her thigh in late 2015, she had no idea it might be cancer.

The Discovery Shop in Los Altos, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Los Angeles, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Los Gatos, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Dr. Pasi Janne gives an update on the research lead by the Lung Cancer Dream Team, which was created and funded by a partnership between Stand Up For Cancer and The American Cancer Society.

In 1998, Ruthe Cain was living life in California and enjoying being close to the fresh air and the great outdoors, but that year she would face a diagnosis that would change her life: she learned she had lung cancer.

Director of Estate and Planned Giving in the Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties.

The Discovery Shop in Menlo Park, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Modesto, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Napa, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Northridge, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Oakland, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Orange, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The American Cancer Society is deeply committed to finding new answers that will help every woman affected by cancer. Here are examples of the latest ovarian cancer research that our staff researchers conduct and that we fund through research grants.

When Mercedes Mundaca was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer at age 43, her doctor told her she had 4 months to live. That was 6 years ago.

The Discovery Shop in Pacific Grove, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

A childhood friendship inspired Perry Reed to volunteer with the American Cancer Society Relay For Life program. Perry is now a national volunteer who helps cancer patients through advocacy.

The Discovery Shop in Pleasanton, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Point Loma, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Rancho Bernardo, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Rancho Mirage, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Hospital volunteer Inge Scott, 56, tells patients in the chemotherapy infusion center at UC Irvine Medical Center, “Take one day at a time; always look on the positive side; and never give up.”

The Discovery Shop in Redding, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Redlands, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

These 3 scientists are contributing to research that may help families affected by breast cancer in the future. They're studying the most effective language to include in dense breast notifications after mammography, what makes a cancer cell that’s been dormant—not growing—suddenly reactivate, and the effectiveness of a program to help Latina breast cancer survivors overcome barriers to exercising regularly.

Jesse Nodora, DrPH, an American Cancer Society grantee from Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, is studying how deliver COVID-19-adapted colorectal cancer screening to underserved populations at US community health centers.

Blocking the protein UHRF1 in mice with the bone cancer osteosarcoma may dramatically reduce the cancer’s spread and increase survival.

The Discovery Shop in Roseville, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Sacramento, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Salinas, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

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The Discovery Shop in Santa Clarita, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Santa Monica, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Sherman Oaks, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Stacy Matseas is a dedicated Making Strides Against Breast Cancer volunteer and fundraiser who has raised more than $1.3 million for the cause since 2000 when her childhood friend was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 33.

The Discovery Shop in Stockton, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Sunnyvale, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Lesly Gregory hasn’t always made a big deal out of being a cancer survivor. But this year she is throwing a party and inviting family and friends to help her celebrate 15 years since having thyroid cancer.

Tom Bajoras says he’s written some of his best music during nights when pain kept him from sleeping. Bajoras has been playing and writing music since he was a child, and he’s found the creative process helpful during treatment for a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (NET).

Susan Gutowsky Bio

Niket Desai was at Google headquarters presenting a new project before a large audience when his phone began vibrating in his pocket. It was his doctor calling to tell him he had testicular cancer.

Timothy Lee, Director of Philanthropy

The Discovery Shop in Toluca Lake, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

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The Discovery Shop in Visalia, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Walnut Creek, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

The Discovery Shop in Yuba City, CA is a specialty resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Carole Clarke, 77, has always counted on her sense of humor to get her through the tough times. And that includes facing down stage 3A non-small cell lung cancer.

Biography of Amy Myers, Director of Major Gifts for the American Cancer Society in San Diego, CA.