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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.

ACS Guidelines

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ACS Prevention and Early Detection Guidelines

The American Cancer Society provides guidelines that help the public and health professionals better prevent and detect cancer. 
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How We Develop Our Guidelines

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

Provider and Patient Education

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ACS Journals and Publications

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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Professional Education and Training

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

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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ACS Project ECHO

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.

Focus Areas

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HPV Vaccination

We work at the national, state, and community level to increase HPV vaccination uptake through education, awareness, and partnerships.
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American Cancer Society Roundtables

The American Cancer Society (ACS) unites organizations in collaborative partnerships through its mission-critical national roundtables. 
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Global Footprint

In collaboration with a worldwide network of partnerships, we are urging governments and international organizations to recognize that cancer is a global priority requiring an urgent response.

Help us end cancer as we know it, for everyone.

 
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