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American Cancer Society in Louisiana

If you’re looking for cancer information and resources in Louisiana you’ve come to the right place. From our local fundraising events to our cancer support programs, you’ll find everything you need to fuel the fight against cancer and get patient support – right here in our community.

Local Resources

The American Cancer Society has programs and services to help you manage cancer treatment and recovery and find the emotional support you need. And best of all, our help is free. Find programs and services in Louisiana.

Transportation

Road To Recovery gives cancer patients free rides to treatment.

Advocacy

We’re activists leading the fight for a world without cancer in Alabama.

Cancer Information

Looking for information? We’re here when you need us: 1-800-227-2345.

Lodging

When cancer treatment is far from home, we provide a place to stay.

Resource Referral Search

The American Cancer Society has programs and services to help you manage cancer treatment and recovery and find the emotional support you need. And best of all, our help is free.

Local Events

American Cancer Society events are inspiring, uplifting, and great at bringing the fight against cancer directly into your community. Join the spirit of camaraderie and compassion as we work together to save lives from cancer.

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer

Find a walk in Louisiana and help us fight breast cancer.

Relay For Life

Help us attack cancer in our community – join your local Relay.

Galas

Attend a fun-filled event to help fight cancer in Louisiana.
View all Louisiana Events

Volunteer

When you volunteer with the American Cancer Society in Louisiana, you’re helping to save the lives of people in your community – and around the world. It only takes a little time to do a whole lot of good. Sign up to volunteer today.

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ACS News and Social Media

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Giving Back to Healthcare Workers Who Are Giving It Their All

“We have long standing relationships with the local health systems,” said Kate Kelley, executive director for the American Cancer Society in Louisiana. “They consistently work with us to support cancer patients. When we heard their staff needed help staying safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, it wasn’t a matter of if we would help, but how.”...[more]

Louisiana Patient Navigator Available During Pandemic

Patients at University Medical Center New Orleans have benefited from onsite patient navigators with helpful advice during cancer journeys since 2006. That work doesn’t stop, even in the era of COVID-19, so the Society’s navigators have shifted to working from home. Sheltering in place, their critical work continues. Being available to their patients is still the priority, even virtually....[more]

From Naples to New Orleans: A Home Away from Home

Marilyn Thackery has been staying at the Patrick F Taylor Hope Lodge since June of this year after being diagnosed in April with invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast. Marilyn traveled 817 miles to get to New Orleans for treatment. She lives in Naples, Florida. “When I came to New Orleans for the first time to meet with doctors at Ochsner Health System, I knew I was in the right place,” Marilyn said....[more]

That Time You...Were Dramatic

Growing up, my siblings and I were encouraged to not make a big deal of things when possible. Don’t get me wrong. There was plenty of drama. We’re all creatives and right brain thinkers. So there was a healthy dose of passion within the walls of our slice of New Orleans suburbia. But beyond home, keeping the peace was my parents’ preferred brand. Mom didn’t storm the principal’s office. Pop didn’t play dirty in the politics of architecture. They had backbones and stood for justice and ethics, but making a scene would always draw the wrong kind of attention...[more]

Volunteers for life: From high schoolers to young professionals

Nearly half of the New Orleans Chapter of American Cancer Society's Junior Executive Board are alumni of a New Orleans Independent School and began their involvement with the American Cancer Society as early as freshman year of high school...[more]

Cancer Facts and Statistics

In the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Statistic Center, you’ll find information about Louisiana’s cancer incidence, mortality, and survival rates, screening metrics, and risk factors.

See Cancer Statistics for Louisiana

Local Mailing Addresses

Our National Cancer Information Specialists are available to help you with any patient services, resource requests, or cancer information questions twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, at 1-800-227-2345.

LA New Orleans
PO Box 83930 Baton Rouge , LA 70884

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