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More than 700 advocates will be in Washington, DC for trainings, issue briefings and lobbying their members of Congress during ACS CAN's annual Leadership Summit and Lobby Day.

Brandi Benson spent most of the fall and winter of 2008 working out with her Army unit in Iraq. She felt tired all the time but wouldn’t find out until weeks later that she had Ewing sarcoma.

Tamika Felder wants her generation to be the last women to ever get cervical cancer. “I don’t want anybody to have to go through what I went through,” she says.

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

Dara Heidt, Major Gifts Director for the American Cancer Society in New Jersey.

When Diane Legg, an active mom of 3 in her early 40s, felt a pain in her back after picking up her 1-year-old-son, she went to her doctor expecting to hear that she had pulled a muscle.

The American Cancer Society's local resources, programs, and events help those going through cancer in the District of Columbia.

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.

Judie Shepherd-Martin, a native North Carolinian and longtime resident of the state of Maryland, enjoys her role in helping others with their charitable plans.

Pancreatic cancer struck Ron Blaho’s family in the spring of 2008. Between the beginning of April and the middle of May, Blaho, his brother, and his sister were all diagnosed with the disease.

Robin Yabroff, PhD, MBA, is the Scientific Vice President, Health Services Research, for the ACS Surveillance & Health Equity Science Department. She leads a team of researchers who focus on the financial hardship and economic burden of cancer, health insurance coverage, and geographic factors associated with quality and value of cancer care.

Julie Turner describes herself as an average 56-year-old woman, a mother and grandmother, a retired school administrator, an American Cancer Society volunteer, and a very lucky person. A survivor of Hodgkin Disease from age 17, Turner says she is amazed at everything she has in her life today.