About Us

For more than a century, the American Cancer Society has worked tirelessly to save lives from every cancer, in every community. By taking what we’ve learned through research and turning it into what we do, we have contributed to a 25 percent decrease in the overall cancer death rate between the early 1990s and 2016. That means that we helped avoid about 2.1 million cancer deaths over the past two decades, moving us closer to a world free from this devastating disease. Learn more by visiting www.cancer.org.