Wild Card
Mission
Early Prevention & Detection
Research
Breast Cancer Facts
100

Length of a Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk

What is 3-5 miles?
100

Program in which volunteer drivers drive cancer patients to and from treatment

What is Road to Recovery?

100

Easiest way to prevent lung cancer

What is not smoking?

100

Largest funder of cancer research just behind the Federal Government

What is the American Cancer Society?

100

Name of test used for early detection of breast cancer

What is a mammogram?

200

The American Cancer Society's nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate who works with Congress and state legislatures to increase funding for cancer research and prioritize funding for life-saving cancer screenings

What is the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN)?

200

Time of day that the National Cancer Information Center is open

What is 24/7?

200

Healthy habits that help prevent cancer

What is a healthy diet and exercise?

200

Founder of the American Cancer Society research fund

Who is Mary Lasker?

200

Decline in breast cancer death rate over the last 2 decades

What is 40%?

300

Name of the American Cancer Society's breast cancer walks that take place in October

What is Making Strides Against Breast Cancer?

300

Program where breast cancer survivors volunteer their time to talk with newly diagnosed breast cancer patients

What is Reach to Recovery?

300

Age at which a woman should begin having yearly mammograms to screen for breast cancer

What is 45?

300

Amount of money that the American Cancer Society is currently investing in breast cancer research

What is $64 million?

300

Number of women who will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime

What is 1 in 8?

400

Most commonly diagnosed cancer in men

What is lung cancer?

400

Program where cancer patients can stay for free if they have to travel for treatment

What is Hope Lodge (or Hotel Partners Program)?

400

Organization that publishes cancer screening guidelines

What is the American Cancer Society?

400

Two drugs that American Cancer Society funded researchers helped find to treat breast cancer

What is Tomoxifen and Herceptin?
400

The most common cancer diagnosed in women (except for skin cancers)

What is breast cancer?

500

The American Cancer Society considers you a survivor when

What is at diagnosis?

500

The people helping the American Cancer Society's mission of saving lives, celebrating lives, and leading the fight for a world without cancer.

What are volunteers?

500

The best way to protect yourself from skin cancer

What is wearing sunscreen?
500

Number of Nobel Laureates the American Cancer Society has supported

What is 49?

500

Number of women expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019

What is 268,000?