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Multiple myeloma survivor Jim Bond is easy to spot among the hundreds of bicyclists in the Pan Ohio Hope Ride, which takes place every July and raises money for the American Cancer Society.

Visit the American Cancer Society's Akron, Ohio Discovery Shop. A resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

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

Anne Will, Director of Planned Giving and Estate Planning

An active volunteer with the American Cancer Society’s advocacy affiliate, Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), Anne Creech fights every day for funding of federal cancer programs.

Visit the American Cancer Society's Chardon, Ohio Discovery Shop. A resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Visit the American Cancer Society's Cincinnati, Ohio Discovery Shop. A resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Information on Cleveland Hope Lodge

Jill Chang says she always knew she might get cancer some day. It seemed to run in the family. But she never dreamed she’d be diagnosed with cancer at age 30.

Visit the American Cancer Society's Columbus-Franklin, Ohio Discovery Shop. A 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.

Join one of our biking fundraisers to support the American Cancer Society in Ohio or Pennsylvania.

Visit the American Cancer Society's Fairview Park, Ohio Discovery Shop, a resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Chalk, 64, is a 14-year prostate cancer survivor, and he’s spent the past 11 years talking to men about prostate cancer as part of his job and as a volunteer for the American Cancer Society Man To Man program in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Visit the American Cancer Society's Gazebo East Ohio Discovery Shop. A resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Visit the American Cancer Society's Gazebo West, Ohio Discovery Shop. A resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Gerard Grim Director, Major Gifts for the American Cancer Society in Ohio.

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.

Biography of Jill Rafferty, Major Gifts Director for the American Cancer Society in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia.

Information on Cleveland Hope Lodge

Planned Giving Officer

Visit the American Cancer Society's Lucas County, Ohio Discovery Shop. A 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.

Michelle E. Mancini, Sr. Director of Estate and Gift Planning for Kentucky and Ohio.

Discovery Shops are located in California, Iowa, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oregon, and Virginia. Find your local shop today.

The American Cancer Society's local resources, programs, and events help those going through cancer in Ohio.

By supporting your local Discovery Shop, you help make the American Cancer Society’s mission possible, and that helps us all move closer to our ultimate goal: a world with less cancer and more birthdays.

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.

Prostate cancer survivor Bob Hayman, 53, wants to share his story with anyone who wants to hear it. “My mission in life is to pay it forward and give back,” said Hayman.

Biography of Steve Gilmore, American Cancer Society Senior Director of Major Gifts for Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia.

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.

Several times a year, Mark Klein visits high schools in the Toledo, Ohio area to share his story with groups of junior and senior boys. He tells them about the symptoms that led him to seek treatment and what it’s been like for him to survive testicular cancer.

Visit the American Cancer Society's Toledo, Ohio Discovery Shop, a resale store featuring items such as clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items.

Biography of Wayne White, Executive Vice President of the American Cancer Society's North Central Region.

I was blessed to be in Stage I. Many women of African American descent are in Stage III or IV before they get tested or diagnosed. Early detection is so important.