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Mission

Your Dollars at Work

The mission of the American Cancer Society is to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

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The American Cancer Society helps people with cancer in every community.  We’re working tirelessly to find new drugs and treatments as well as new ways to use existing treatments.  Our research program has played a role in many of the prevention, screening, and treatment advances that saves lives from cancer today.  We continue to fund research to help save even more lives in the future.

Conducting Breast Cancer Research


$78M+
Invested in breast cancer research grants

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$6,852,000
Texas breast cancer research funding

 

Breast Cancer Facts & Figures

Helping Patients, Survivors, and Caregivers



152M+

Visits to our cancer.org featuring the latest, most accurate information on virtually all topics related to cancer.


500K
Free nights of lodging provided to cancer patients and their families.


Over 9.6M+
Free rides given to treatment.


25M+ 
Calls and live chats handled by our 24/7 helpline since 1997.

 


90,000+
Patients served by ACS programs and services last year.


1.5M+
One-on-One support services provided to breast cancer patients through our Reach to Recovery Program.

Making Progress Together

Declining breast cancer mortality rates since 1989

-44%
Breast cancer death rates reduced in the US

517,900
Lives saved from breast cancer since 1989

Impact & Mission

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The American Cancer Society is the leading cancer-fighting organization with a vision to end cancer as we know it, for everyone. We are the only organization improving the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.