Cancer Statistics
Programs & Patient Services
Lincoln City Relay
ACS Breakthroughs
Relay For Life
100
This is the most common cancer in men.
What is prostate cancer
100
This program provides volunteer-operated transportation bringing patients to and from treatment.
What is Road to Recovery! This amazing program is currently launching in Lincoln County! Interested in volunteering? Contact Jenny Black for more details!!
100
These are the dates of this years event.
What is: August 22nd & 23rd
100
In 1948 the American Cancer Society pushed for the adoption of this test, which decreased uterine and cervix cancer rates by 70 percent.
What is the Pap Smear (or test)
100
The year Relay for Life originiated.
What is 1985
200
This is one of the most preventable cancers.
What is lung cancer This is also the leading cause of cancer for both Men and Women in the United States!
200
The program that provides a Support group and assistance for those that are suffering from physical appearance related side effects from chemo?
What is Look Good, Feel Better.
200
These are the hours that the Relay event is happening.
What is Noon to 8am
200
This test is highly recommended for men above the age of 50 to test for prostate cancer.
What is the PSA blood test.
200
When did the Relay for Life of Lincoln City Begin?
What is 2003
300
This cancer is most common in females.
What is breast cancer.
300
The website for the American Cancer Society helps survivors find others and support groups.
What is www.cancer.org
300
What is this years theme?
What is Carnival for a Cure! Join us for a family fun day at the carnival! We will have games and fun for the whole family!
300
As of today, the American Cancer Society is proud to have supported this many Nobel Prize winners.
What is 48!
300
Purple t-shirts are used to recognize these specific individuals.
What are survivors. Survivors are why we Relay, without them there would be no Relay for Life!
400
This is the number of new cases of cancer that is expected to occur just this year (2015) in the US
What is about 1.7 million
400
Funding aggressive grassroots, lobbying and media campaigns to make every state smoke-free and to increase tobacco taxes and funding for cancer research.
What is ACS CAN
400
Where is the relay event held at?
What is Taft High School (Track & Field)!
400
To detect breast cancer before traditional techniques, this tool was developed in 1973.
What is Mammography (Mammogram)
400
This event is what begins the Relay for Life.
What is Opening Ceremony or Survivor Lap
500
This is the most common form of cancer with more than one million Americans diagnosed yearly.
What is skin cancer.
500
What is the program that provides one on one support for breast cancer patients, directly after diagnosis.
What is Reach to Recovery.
500
The emotional ceremony where we remember those we have lost to this horrible disease called cancer while decorated bags lit by candles line the track?
What is Luminaria Ceremony. Please join us on Aug 22nd at 10pm for our Luminaria Ceremony!
500
In 1947 the American Cancer Society funded research for this treatment, which was discovered to produce remissions in leukemia.
What is chemotherapy, specifically in children
500
How do you get your company logo on the back of over 500 participant shirts?
What is Sponsor! We have a variety of ways you can sponsor our event and get your logo displayed on our t-shirts, posters, programs and have your banner displayed at the Relay event itself. See Jenny Black for more information!
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