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Information for Health Care Professionals

The American Cancer Society offers evidence-based, understandable, and actionable resources to help healthcare teams educate and empower their patients and caregivers.

Learn more about resources for patients and caregivers created by the American Cancer Society.

How to Use Cancer.org Resources for Your Patients

ACS Guidelines

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The American Cancer Society provides guidelines that help the public and health professionals better prevent and detect cancer.

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The American Cancer Society adheres to strict protocol to develop and revise our guidelines.

Provider and Patient Education

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The American Cancer Society offers the medical journals CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Cancer, and Cancer Cytopathology, as well other books and publications.

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Educate yourself and your staff on cancer-related topics with up-to-date information from the American Cancer Society.

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Inform your patients with easy-to-read materials, as well as videos and interactive tools, on a variety of topics including prevention and early detection, treatment, side effects, and survivorship.

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The ECHO Model allows ACS to efficiently disseminate evidence-based strategies to improve outcomes across the cancer continuum by engaging participants in a virtual community with peers and subject matter experts using didactic and case-based presentations. ACS is a global ECHO Superhub authorized to recruit, train, and support new partners.