About The American Cancer Society

Together with our millions of supporters, the American Cancer Society saves lives by helping people stay well and get well, by finding cures, and by fighting back against cancer.

Helping you stay well

– We help you take steps to prevent cancer or find it at its earliest, most treatable stage.

Helping you get well

– We’re in your corner around the clock to help you through every step of your cancer experience.

Finding cures

– We fund and conduct research that helps us better understand, prevent, and find cures for cancer.

Fighting back

– We work with lawmakers to pass laws to defeat cancer and rally communities worldwide to join the fight.

For information, day-to-day help, or emotional support, visit cancer.org or call us at 1-800-227-2345 anytime, day or night.

About Us

The American Cancer Society is on a mission to free the world from cancer. For more than 100 years, we have helped lead an evolution in the way the world prevents, detects, treats, and thinks about cancer. As the nation’s preeminent cancer-fighting organization, we fund and conduct research, share expert information, support people with cancer, spread the word about prevention, and through our advocacy affiliate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action NetworkSM (ACS CAN), advocate for public policy change. We are committed to ensuring that ALL people have a fair and just opportunity to prevent, find, treat, and survive cancer – regardless of income, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or where they live. Thanks in large part to our decades of work, a cancer diagnosis does not come without hope, and the cancer journey is not one that is traveled alone.