Your Dollars at Work
The mission of the American Cancer Society is to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
Friday, April 5, 2024
The Post Oak Hotel
The American Cancer Society helps people with cancer in every community. We’re working tirelessly to find new drugs and treatments as well as new ways to use existing treatments. Our research program has played a role in many of the prevention, screening, and treatment advances that save lives from cancer today. We continue to fund research to help save even more lives in the future.
Conducting Breast Cancer Research
Finding breast cancer’s causes and cures
$78M+
Invested in breast cancer research grants
(As of November 2021)
$6,852,000
Texas breast cancer research funding
(As of November 2021)
Helping Patients, Survivors,
and Caregivers
Offering information and eduction
122M+
Visits to our website cancer.org, featuring the latest, most accurate information on virtually all topics related to cancer.
25M+
Calls and live chats handled by our 24/7 helpline since 1997
3.6M
Outreach and education interventions since 2011, through our CHANGE* program
*Community Health Advocates implementing Nationwide Grants for Empowerment and Equity
90,000+
Patients served by ACS programs and services last year.
Over 9.6M+
Free rides given to treatment
500K+
Free nights of lodging provided to cancer patients and caregivers near treatment each year
1.5M
One-on-one support services provided to breast cancer patients since 1969
Helping People Take Steps To Stay Healthy
Mobilizing communities to help reduce their risk of breast cancer
Creating evidence-based breast cancer screening guidelines
Providing education for health care professionals
Contributing to grants that educate and enable at-risk communities to get breast cancer screenings
Educating communities about how a healthy lifestyle can help reduce breast cancer risk
Making Progress Together
Declining breast cancer mortality rates since 1989
%