Source: American Cancer Society Copyright 2012 American Cancer Society, Inc. All rights reserved. To the nearly 12 million cancer survivors in the United States, each birthday is a special milestone. These days, more people are surviving cancer and living longer – and that’s something to celebrate, especially on National Cancer Survivors Day, held June 3 [...]
Fashion Designers Visit Nation’s Capital for Kickoff of Cure By Design D.C.
April 19, 2012 By
En Español WASHINGTON (April 19, 2012)—Designer Alex Garfield has taken his passion for fashion and his love of helping others to a new level. Garfield, with the support of his friend Tommy Hilfiger, has created Cure By Design—an American Cancer Society fashion show celebrating survivorship. And recently, designer Luis Machicao—who recently had a small part [...]
Diseñador hispano Luis Machicao visita la capital del país el 25 de abril para el lanzamiento oficial del evento de modas, Cure By Design en Washington, D.C.
April 19, 2012 By
WASHINGTON (19 de abril de 2012)— El diseñador de moda peruano Luis Machicao, visitará Washington, DC para anunciar y promocionar la segunda edición del desfile anual de modas de dela Sociedad Americana contra el Cure conocido como Cure By Design. Machicao recientemente interpretó un pequeño papel en la exitosa película The Hunger Games, y ahora [...]
Choose Play This May to Help Prevent Cancer
April 16, 2012 By
Source: American Cancer Society Copyright 2012 American Cancer Society, Inc. All rights reserved. Remember the spontaneity and freedom of recess? The joy of taking a break to run around aimlessly, hang on monkey bars, or jump rope with friends? This May, the American Cancer Society is calling on women everywhere to relive that joy by [...]
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue to Present Check to American Cancer Society to Fight Breast Cancer
January 26, 2012 By
FAIRFAX, VA (January 26, 2012) – Last October during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, members of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department donned pink shirts to help the American Cancer Society increase awareness of breast cancer. They also sold the pink t-shirts to raise money to fight breast cancer. On Monday, January 30, members [...]
Coaches vs. Cancer Tip-Off Breakfast Set for Jan. 20, Benefits American Cancer Society
January 12, 2012 By
Washington, DC – January 20, 2012 – Seats are available for a suggested donation of $100 to the national capital area’s Coaches vs. Cancer Tip-Off Breakfast, to be held Friday, Jan. 20 at 7:30 a.m. at The Verizon Center, entrance on 7th and G Street. Area college basketball coaches will be on hand to kick-off [...]
American Cancer Society Awards $347,000 Grant to D.C. Researcher
November 21, 2011 By
ATLANTA (November 21, 2011) – The American Cancer Society, the largest non-government, not-for-profit funding source of cancer research in the United States, recently awarded a $347,000 research scholar grant to Michael T. Halpern, M.D., Ph.D. at the Department of Health Services and Social Policy Research, Research Triangle Institute, in Washington, D.C. The grant, which goes [...]
Neither Rain Nor Snow Nor High Winds Can Keep Dedicated Walkers from Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Nation’s Capital
November 4, 2011 By
WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 4, 2011) – Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of day could discourage dedicated walkers from participating in the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer on Saturday, October 29. More than 1,500 people turned out for the walk on the National Mall, braving pouring rain, chilly temperatures and high winds to raise [...]
DC Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Team Is ‘Rolling’ For A Cure
October 25, 2011 By
Lisa Morton has combined her 20-year love of roller skating with a passion for raising funds and awareness to fight breast cancer. Lisa, an 11-year breast cancer survivor, and her team, Roller Skate for The Cure, will participate in the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk inWashington,D.C.on Saturday, October 29. They’ll be [...]
Bethesda Cancer Survivor Endures And Triumphs over Seven Bouts of Cancer; Now Her Son Volunteers with Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Her Honor
October 24, 2011 By
It’s been 35 years since Anne Muir was diagnosed with breast cancer – the first of seven bouts of cancer she would endure and survive. In three decades, Anne, now 70, has battled – and survived – two rounds of breast cancer, two bouts of lung cancer, uterine cancer, thyroid cancer, and axillary sarcoma. This [...]
Barwood Taxi Supports Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in DC with ‘Pink Ride’
October 11, 2011 By
(Kensington, Maryland) — You can stand up against breast cancer simply by sitting down—in a specially designated “TLPA Pink Ride to benefit the American Cancer Society” vehicle operated by Barwood Taxi. The pink taxi will be parked on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for the Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk on Saturday, [...]
Two Nobel Prize Winners Received American Cancer Society Funding
October 6, 2011 By
ATLANTA – October 3, 2011—Two of the three scientists receiving the 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology are former American Cancer Society research grantees, bringing the number of Nobel Laureates among the Society’s funded researchers to 46. Dr. Bruce A Beutler, professor of genetics and immunology at The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, [...]