The American Society‘s Look Good...Feel Better program helps women deal with the treatment-related side effects of having cancer.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj In 2010, nearly 58,000 people from NY and NJ called ACS’s 24 hour hotline, 1-800-227-2345, with questions or to get information on programs for patients and their families.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj In 2010, 1,250 rides were provided to patients in NY and NJ through Road to Recovery, a program that provides transportation to and from cancer treatments.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj The American Cancer Society is currently funding 24 grants totaling over $15 million to study environmental links to cancer.

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www.cancer.org/nynj The American Cancer Society currently is funding 220 breast cancer research projects, totaling over $115 million nationwide.

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www.cancer.org/nynj The American Cancer Society has more than $17.6 million currently invested in breast cancer research in and New Jersey.

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www.cancer.org/nynj The American Cancer Society is the nation's largest non-profit source of private funding for cancer research.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj In 2010, the American Cancer Society launched the first in the nation Hope Club in Albany; a warm and welcoming place where men, women and children with cancer – along with their families and friends – create a cancer support community. Find out more at Research Central

www.cancer.org/nynj Marie-Claire King, recipient of the $1 million Walt Disney-American Cancer Society Professorship for Breast Cancer Research, discovered the BRCA1 gene for inherited susceptibility to breast cancer.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj The American Cancer Society has funded 44 researchers who have won Nobel Prizes.

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www.cancer.org/nynj In the 1970's, the American Cancer Society invested more than $1 million to research the effectiveness of mammography to detect breast cancer. Today mammography remains the best detection tool available.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj The American Cancer Society funded V. Craig Jordan, PhD, who showed that Tamoxifen could prevent breast cancer. Tamoxifen is an FDA-approved treatment today.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj In 1985, the American Cancer Society funded Bernard Fisher, MD, who demonstrated that lumpectomy plus radiation is equivalent to mastectomy for breast cancer survival.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj The American Cancer Society has more than $48 million in research dollars currently at work in New York and New Jersey.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj In 1995, American Cancer Society Research Professor Michael Wigler, PhD, Cold Spring Harbor Labs (LI) developed a technique to identify abnormalities in DNA that led to the isolation and cloning of an important prostate cancer gene.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj In 2003, American Cancer Society epidemiologists reported that people who are obese have a 25% increased risk of death from cancer. The American Cancer Society recommends getting at least 5 fruit and vegetable servings each day.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj In 1954, the American Cancer Society-Hammond-Horn study of 188,000 men showed the first link between smoking and lung cancer. Smokers in the study had mortality rates nearly 70% higher than nonsmokers and a tenfold higher incidence of lung cancer.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj In 1953, American Cancer Society-funded , PhD, (with Francis Crick, MD) established the double helical structure of DNA for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj In 1981, American Cancer Society research grant-holder, T. Ming Chu, PhD, developed the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test for screening and early detection of prostate cancer.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj In 2002, American Cancer Society Research Professor Bert Vogelstein, MD, announced a new screening test for colon cancer that detects specific genetic abnormalities in stool samples of up to 70% of patients with colon cancer.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj In 1972, American Cancer Society- funded E. Donnall Thomas, MD, pioneered the technique of bone marrow transplant to treat cancer. He received the Nobel Prize in 1990.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj The American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge is a home away from home for cancer patients. A 60-room NYC facility was opened in November 2007 in midtown .

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www.cancer.org/nynj The American Cancer Society‘s Camp Adventure is a free one-week overnight camp program for more than 100 kids with cancer and their brothers and sisters.

Find out more at Research Central www.cancer.org/nynj This is the 63rd anniversary of the American Cancer Society’s Research Program. The American Cancer Society has awarded more than $3.3 billion in grants since 1946.

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www.cancer.org/nynj Dr. Sandra Demaria $720,000 Grant New York University

Radiation is a widely used therapeutic tool for breast and other cancers, however is not always as effective as it could be. Dr. Demaria is using her American Cancer Society grant to learn more. “I hope that my research will provide new treatment options for patients with breast and other cancers,” she said. “In metastatic cancer, radiation is used as a palliative treatment. If we will be able to translate our findings to the clinic, radiation could be used on a tumor nodule to harness the patient's own anti-tumor immune response. This could then destroy tumor deposits throughout the body.”

Find out more at Research Central on www.cancer.org/nynj Kevin Fiscella, M.D., M.P.H. $1,060,000 Grant University of Rochester

Early detection of cancer is the key to survival, but for many people, poverty, lack of education, and cultural barriers stand in the way of routine screening. Dr. Fiscella is using his American Cancer Society grant to conduct a trial to increase cancer screening rates among African-Americans and the uninsured. "We propose to adapt an intervention shown to be effective in increasing community-wide childhood and adult immunization rates and apply it to colon and breast screening as a means of reducing disparities," said Fiscella.

Find out more at Research Central on www.cancer.org/nynj Dr. Yibin Kang $840,000 Grant Princeton University

One of the most dreadful phenomena in breast cancer is the recurrence of tumors in secondary sites years after the removal of the primary tumor. Dr. Yibin Kang is using his American Cancer Society grant to unravel the mystery of why this happens. “Many patients do not die from their primary tumors, but instead from metastatic recurrences years after their initial treatment. Studying tumor dormancy in breast cancer is likely to significantly increase the chance of long-term survival and quality of life for breast cancer patients.”

Find out more at Research Central on www.cancer.org/nynj Charles Powell, M.D. $720,000 Grant Columbia University

Lung cancer is the most frequent cause of cancer death in the . In fact, the chance that someone will survive five years after a lung cancer diagnosis is only 15%. Dr. Powell is using his American Cancer Society grant to help change these statistics. Dr. Powell is trying to understand biological mechanisms that are important for the different properties of subtypes of lung adenocarcinoma, the most frequent cell type of lung cancer.

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