Cancer Stats
Programs & Patient Services
Northeastern Relay Facts
Relay History
American Cancer Society History
100
This is the most common cancer in men
What is prostate cancer?
100
A place for cancer patients to stay while undergoing treatment.
What is Hope Lodge?
100

What # Relay is this year's at Northeastern?

What is 11th?

100
 He is the founder of Relay For Life
Who is Gordy Klatt
100
The year that the American Cancer Society was founded
What is 1913?
200
The recommended age for women to get their first mammogram
  What is age 40?
200
A one-on-one support program for women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer
What is Reach to Recovery?
200
Our ACS Staff Partner

Who is Christine Brown?

200
The amount of hours the first Relay event lasted
What is 24 hours?
200
Its the number of foundling members who  began the American Cancer Society? 
What is 15?  Ten doctors and five laypeople.
300
This cancer is the number one cause of death in both men and women.
What is lung cancer?
300
Two places people can go to get cancer-related information.
cancer.org and 1-800-227-2345
300

The Program Manager for Relay For Life

Who is Allie Zinni?

300
The first Relay event was held in this city
Where is Tacoma, Washington?
300
He is the man who designed the iconic Sword of Hope logo for the American Cancer Society.
Who is George e Durant?
400
The number of Nobel Prize winners the American Cancer Society has funded.
What is 47?
400
A program that provides transportation to and from treatment. 
What is Road to Recovery?
400

Event Leads for Relay For Life

Who are JoJo, Jenna, Jenn, and Josie?
400
The year Relay For Life was started
When is 1985?
400
It's the amount of money the American Cancer Society has invested in cancer Research since 1946
What is 4 billion dollars?
500
This is the most common form of cancer with more than one million Americans diagnosed yearly
What is skin cancer?
500

The name of the sports alliance between ACS and College Teams

What is Coaches vs. Cancer?

500

It's the year that the Northeastern University chapter of Colleges Against Cancer Chapter was founded.

What is 2010?  

500

The amount of countries Relay For Life takes place in worldwide

What is 26?

500
its the mission of the American Cancer Society.
What is Saving Lives, Celebrating Lives and lead the fight for a world without cancer.