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 [...]
Florence Area Residents Called to Contribute to Historic Cancer Research Effort
May 3, 2012 By
Florence, SC, May 3, 2012 – Area residents have an unprecedented opportunity to participate in a historic study that may change the face of cancer. Men and women between the ages of 30 and 65 who have never been diagnosed with cancer are needed to participate in the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3). [...]
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 [...]
Sumter, SC Joins the Movement to Prevent Cancer
April 11, 2012 By
SUMTER, S.C. – April 11, 2012— What if you could prevent a family from hearing the words, “You have cancer”? What if you could help save lives from cancer and give people more precious time with family and friends? Well, you can! Sumter residents have an unprecedented opportunity to participate in an historic study that [...]
Free Health Forum Helps Raise Cancer Awareness in Charleston
February 9, 2012 By
Charleston, S.C. – February 9, 2012 – The community is invited to a free health forum designed to help raise cancer awareness and encourage action in Charleston’s African American community. The Health Forum is scheduled Saturday, February 18, 2012, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Arthur Christopher Community Center, 265 Fishburne Street, Charleston, S.C. Presented [...]
Campaign Raises Cancer Awareness, Encourages Action in African American Community
February 9, 2012 By
Charleston, S.C. – February 9, 2012 – The American Cancer Society, in partnership with NEWorks Productions and Royal Baptist Church recently hosted “Call to Action” a gospel concert to increase cancer awareness and action within Charleston’s African American community. The event, the first of its kind in Charleston, was a combination of music and ministry [...]
Upcoming Gospel Concert Kicks Off Campaign to Raise Cancer Awareness and Encourage Action in African American Community
January 12, 2012 By
In an effort to change alarming health disparity statistics in South Carolina, American Cancer Society brings Partnering for Life Health and Wellness Tour to Charleston. Charleston, S.C. – January 12, 2012 – The American Cancer Society, in partnership with NEWorks Productions and Royal Baptist Church will host “Call to Action” a gospel concert to increase cancer [...]
Michelin Development President John Tully Joins Board of Directors for American Cancer Society South Atlantic Division
November 1, 2011 By
GREENVILLE, S.C. – The South Atlantic Division of the American Cancer Society recently selected John D. Tully, Development President of Michelin Development Company and Director of Michelin Development North American, to join its volunteer Board of Directors. Tully began his three-year term on Sept. 1, 2011. The South Atlantic Division, the largest Division of the [...]
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, [...]
Cancer Patients, Caregivers Offered Free Telephone Workshops to Help Manage Experience with Disease
May 11, 2011 By
ATLANTA – May 11, 2011 – Finding out a loved one has cancer can be one of the most difficult things a person will ever have to experience, but caregivers who offer friendship, love and support to the family member or friend diagnosed with the disease do not have to go through the experience alone. [...]
American Cancer Society Announces Partnership with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
April 19, 2011 By
ATLANTA — April 19, 2011 — The American Cancer Society’s Florida and South Atlantic Divisions are proud to announce a new community partnership agreement with the South Atlantic Region of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. The partnership will help the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority enhance the health, morale and well-being of its more than 10,000 members, [...]
American Cancer Society Awards $720,000 Research and Training Grant to University of South Carolina Researcher
April 15, 2011 By
COLUMBIA, S. CAROLINA – April 15, 2011— The American Cancer Society, the largest non-government, not-for-profit funding source of cancer research in the United States, has awarded a research and training grant to a University of South Carolina researcher. The grant, which goes into effect July 1, is among 132 national research and training grants totaling [...]