ACS Facts
The world's largest volunteer based fundraising event for cancer hosted by American Cancer Society.
What is the Relay for Life?
How breast cancer tumors usually start.
What is a lump? or What is benign?
Most people diagnosed with lung cancer are of the age _______ and over.
What is 65?
When pancreatic cancer spreads, it often goes to this organ.
What is the liver?
Cancer Awareness for the month of October,
What is breast cancer? or What is liver cancer?
A service that the American Cancer Society provides for cancer patients and their families.
What is paying for treatment, lodging, rides to treatment, and patient support?
What is twenty percent?
Lung Cancer makes up _______ of all cancer deaths.
What is twenty five percent?
The average age of diagnosis is ____.
What is seventy?
Cancer awareness for the month of June.
What is National Cancer Survivor Month?
Test that is used to detect breast cancers and other breast related diseases.
What is a mammogram?
Substances that severely increases one's risk of lung cancer.
What is nicotine, tobacco, radon, and diesel exhaust?
Pancreatic cancer starts when this type of pancreatic cells starts dividing out of control.
What are endocrine cells?
Cancer Awareness for the month of May.
What is Melanoma and Skin Cancer, Brain Cancer, and/or Bladder Cancer?
The amount of money (in U.S. dollars) that the American Cancer Society has invested in research since 1946.
What is $4.9 billion?
The likelihood of an average U.S. woman contracting breast cancer in her lifetime.
What is thirteen percent?
Most common type of tumor in lung cancers.
What is a carcinoma, or adenocarcinoma?
Pancreatic cancer accounts for _____ of all cancer deaths in the U.S.
What is seven percent?
Cancer Awareness for the month of July.
What is Sarcoma/Bone Cancer Month?
The number of company CEO's engaged in the American Cancer Society's mission.
What is 400?
The amount of current breast cancer survivors in the United States.
What is 3.5 million?
The type of diagnostic test that can lower the risk of death from lung cancer.
What are spiral CT scans?
Side effects of radiation therapy.
What is skin changes, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, loss of appetite, and/or weight loss?
What is Childhood Cancer, Uterine Cancer, Leukemia, Lymphoma, Ovarian Cancer, Prostate Cancer, and/or Thyroid Cancer?