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

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 Shore, 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.

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.

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.

Through research, we help find answers to critical questions about Colorectal Cancer. Check out the latest cancer prevention studies & overall death rates.

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.

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 C. Marlow, PhD, MS, is a postdoctoral research fellow within Surveillance and Health Equity Science at the American Cancer Society. Learn more about her work with the ACS here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Novato, 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.

See our latest findings from the ovarian cancer research conducted by our staff researchers & funded 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.

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 is studying how to deliver COVID-19-adapted colorectal cancer screening to underserved populations at US community health centers. Learn more.

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.

The Discovery Shop in San Jose, 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 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.

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).

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

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.

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.

The Discovery Shop in Upland, 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 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.