#GivingTuesday is a global day of giving and unity. November 30th, the world will be focused on giving and we have an opportunity to showcase the urgent needs of cancer patients and ACS in a climate that has been significantly impacted by COVID-19. Donate3.cancer.org features various options for giving, whether it’s single donations or monthly reoccurring donations - donors can also give in honor of loved ones or connect with us if they want to start a fundraiser of their own.
For Cyber Monday please
consider making you online purchased with companies that support the American
Cancer Society while you shop by purchasing from organizations
that give back to ACS, partner
with ACS, or gifts directly from the ACS’s Discovery
Shops, bookstore,
greeting cards, or
merchandise store.
In honor of Small
Business Saturday please consider supporting small businesses that support the
American Cancer Society while you shop by purchasing from organizations
that give back to ACS, partner
with ACS, or gifts directly from the ACS’s Discovery
Shops, bookstore,
greeting cards, or
merchandise store.
While doing your
holiday shopping this Black Friday please consider supporting the American
Cancer Society while you shop by purchasing from organizations
that give back to ACS, partner
with ACS, or gifts directly from the ACS’s Discovery
Shops, bookstore,
greeting cards, or
merchandise store.
Hockey Fights Cancer™ unites the hockey community in support of cancer patients and their families. Together, we look to inspire hope and courage for those who are living with, going through, and moving past cancer. Funds raised through this partnership support the American Cancer Society. Enjoy the San Jose Shark's Hockey Fights Cancer Night presented by Kaiser Permanente tonight and learn more at cancer.org.
New ACS study underscores the power of quitting, even well into adulthood.
A new American Cancer Society study finds that smokers are at a higher risk – three times more likely – to die of cancer than individuals who have never smoked. But the study also shows that individuals who quit smoking before age 40 can avoid about 90% of the excess risk of dying from cancer that would be expected if they continued to smoke.
According to the data, people who started to smoke at earlier ages had even greater likelihood of dying from cancer. Those who began at the youngest ages (before age 10 years) had four times the cancer mortality rates in adulthood of those who had never smoked. However, individuals who quit smoking avoided most of this excess risk, especially those who quit at younger ages.
To examine these relationships, investigators led by Blake Thomson, DPhil, principal scientist at ACS, looked at the association between age at smoking initiation and cessation and cancer mortality at ages 25 to 79 years. The study, appearing in JAMA Oncology, is one of the largest studies on smoking in the U.S. population using nationally representative data.
Among individuals who currently smoked, smoking caused an estimated 75% of cancer deaths among those who started smoking before the age of 10 years, and 59% of cancer deaths among those who started at age 21 years and older. The researchers found that those who quit smoking at ages 15-34, 35-44, 45-54, and 55-64 years avoided an estimated 100%, 89%, 78% and 56%, respectively, of the excess cancer mortality risk associated with continued smoking.
“These findings reinforce that starting to smoke at any age is extremely hazardous, but smokers who quit – especially at younger ages – can avoid most of the cancer mortality risk associated with continued smoking,” the authors concluded.
According to Dr. Thomson, “Widespread smoking cessation among individuals who currently smoke could substantially reduce cancer mortality in the coming years, accelerating progress on reducing the burden of cancer mortality in the United States.”
*Shared from MySocietySource.
King of the Wing is a chicken wing eating contest raising funds for the American Cancer Society. Learn more and join in the fun at https://www.facebook.com/KingOfWing/.
