American Cancer Society

Cancer incidence has continued to rise in the U.S. since the 1990s — particularly among women and younger adults, according to an American Cancer Society report.

Primary care providers should discuss prostate cancer screening with eligible patients and work to dispel common misconceptions that keep men from getting screened, according to an expert.

More than a quarter of cancer-related crowdfunding stories explicitly related experiences of medical financial hardships, according to cross-sectional study results.

Lack of health insurance contributes to a high percentage of racial and ethnic disparities in advanced-stage diagnoses for several cancer types, according to results of a mediation analysis.

Karen E. Knudsen, MBA, PhD, embraced a straightforward but powerful principle when she assumed two key leadership positions with American Cancer Society.

Incidence rates for 17 different cancer types increased for successively younger generations in the United States during the past century.

About 40% of cancer cases and nearly half of cancer deaths among U.S. adults aged 30 years or older can be attributable to modifiable risk factors, according to a study led by American Cancer Society researchers.

The American Cancer Society has launched VOICES of Black Women, a large long-term population study of cancer risk and outcomes among Black women in the United States.

When Robert A. Winn, MD, learned he’d receive the Allen Lichter Visionary Leader Award at this year’s ASCO Annual Meeting, he reacted in the form of a question: “What just happened?”

CHICAGO — ASCO and American Cancer Society will collaborate to make it easier for patients and their caregivers to find credible cancer information online.