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Founded
American Cancer Society was founded by 15 people. 10 of them were doctors and 5 of them were people who wanted to help. -
Experimenting cancer
Katsusaburo Yamagiwa and Koichi Ichikawa at Tokyo University, induced cancer in lab animals for the first time by applying coal tar to rabbit skin. -
Women’s Field Army
In 1936, a legion of new volunteers - the Women’s Field Army - was organized to wage war on cancer. -
Cancer Research
The American Cancer Society’s intramural research program was founded in 1946 under the direction of E. Cuyler Hammond. This program included cancer surveillance research. -
Hammond-Horn Study
The epidemiologists at the Society launched the Hammond-Horn Study, a large, long-term follow-up study designed to examine the association of cigarette smoking with death rates from cancer and other diseases. -
Tobacco
The Surgeon General’s last comprehensive report on youth and tobacco in 1994 concluded that if young people can remain free of tobacco until 18, most will never start smoking. -
Colon Cancer
The American Cancer Society is encouraging everyone to make a point to learn their family history of colon cancer, and reminding men and women 50 and older to get tested for the disease even if they have no family history. -
Breast cancer
American Cancer Society is urging all women over 40 to seek out a breast cancer screening mammogram. -
Screaning
hospital partners statewide, we are promoting timely screening in all Illinois communities. The goal is to raise screening rates to 75% by 2015, a result that will help save thousands of lives each year. -
Anti-tobacco comercial
They released new campaigns that featured hard-hitting television ads about the consequences of smoking.
