September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. The American Cancer Society currently funds 100 grants relating to prostate cancer. These grants are for $55,630,500. Nine of these grants are in the High Plains Division (seven in
For more information on prostate cancer, including the pros and cons of prostate cancer screening, making decisions about prostate cancer treatment, and finding support when you have prostate cancer, visit "What You Need To Know About Prostate Cancer," on cancer.org.
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Every dollar goes further on September 8, (from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m) when the American Cancer Society, North Texas Region takes part in "Get Up and Give!
On this day, every donation above $25 will be matched if you donate to the Society through donorbridgetx.org, an online resource to connect donors with nonprofit organizations.
On September 8, visit donorbridgetx.org, search for American Cancer Society, North Texas Region and click "Donate Now." Every dollar given will receive a portion of more than $700,000 in matching funds - making each dollar go further.
In 2010, an estimated 1.5 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer, 101,120 of them will be from
You have the power to help the American Cancer Society continue to make a difference in the lives touched by cancer in
About DonorBridge
DonorBridge is a searchable online database with detailed information about nonprofits within the
Donorbridgetx.org, was launched May 19, 2009, with a one-day fundraising drive that used $300,000 in matching funds to raise more than $4.2 million for local nonprofits.
You can help the American Cancer Society save lives from cancer by watching this exclusive trailer for the new Showtime series, The Big C . For every person who watches the trailer, Showtime will donate $1 (up to $25,000) to the Society.
In The Big C , actress Laura Linney stars as Cathy Jamison, a reserved, stifled,
Watch the trailer now and help create a world with less cancer and more birthdays!
Compassionate caregivers around the country are doing extraordinary work on the front lines of the 
fight against cancer. These doctors, nurses, social workers, and others offer comfort, courage, and inspiration to people facing cancer and their families.
These innovative health care professionals, who go above and beyond the call of duty every day, often are overlooked for the service they provide. That's why former American Cancer Society Executive Vice President Lane W. Adams chose to honor these unsung heroes with an award that recognizes people for extending the "warm hand of service" to others.
The Lane Adams Quality of Life Award reflects Adams' own service to people affected by cancer. This visionary leader, who rose to the position of executive vice president of the Society, is remembered as a driving force behind such patient service programs as Reach To Recovery®, I Can Cope®, and Road To Recovery®.
Nominations for the 2011 Lane Adams Quality of Life Award are being accepted until September 15, 2010. Honorees will be recognized at the Society's National Board of Directors meeting in May in Atlanta.
Previous award recipients have included people like Peg Nelson, Director, Pain and Palliative Care Service, St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital in Michigan, who was recognized for her outstanding work in hospice and end-of-life care. The husband of one of Peg's former patients wrote: "Death is the stranger we all must one day meet." Thanks to Peg, he wrote, his wife "did not meet that stranger alone, but with you and her family at her side."
2010 winners included oncologists, hospice workers, a hospital director, case managers, among others. For biographies of previous winners, click here.
For more information about the Lane Adams award and for nomination forms, visit cancer.org/laneadams.
Stay up-to-date with the latest news and events in the High Plains Division of the American Cancer Society by reading Plains Talk, our quarterly newsletter. There are three versions depending on your location, but feel free to read all three versions as each have inspiring stories of volunteers, achievements and moving stories concerning the cancer fight. Click on the links below to read Plains Talk.
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Local Boy Organizes
Parker Wise has organized a book drive at Barnes and Noble on Sunday, July 18, 2010 from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. as a part of his Eagle Scout Project. He hopes to collect more than 400 adult books of all topics to donate to the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge Lubbock Sherilyn Stephens Memorial Library.
WHAT:
WHERE: Barnes and Noble- located in the South Plains Mall.
WHEN: Sunday, July 18, 2 to 6 p.m.
WHO: Parker Wise- Life Scout in Boy Scout Troop 157.
WHY: The American Cancer Society Hope Lodge Lubbock provides up to 11,680 free nights of temporary housing each year to hundreds of cancer patients and family members who must travel far from home to
For details visit hopelodgelubbock.org or contact Parker Wise at 806.798.1598.
While cancer remains a major public health problem in the United States, cancer death rates
among both men and women are continuing to decline, according to the American Cancer Society's (ACS) annual cancer statistics report, "Cancer Statistics, 2010," published in the Society's journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and its companion piece Cancer Facts & Figures 2010. Researchers credit the steady decline mainly to falling smoking rates, improved cancer treatments, and earlier detection of cancer.
Cancer death rates fell 21.0% among men and 12.3% among women during 1991 to 2006, according to the report. That translates to about 767,000 cancer deaths that have been avoided since the early 1990s, ACS researchers estimate. The number of new cancer cases is also waning - cancer incidence decreased 1.3% per year among men from 2000 to 2006 and 0.5% per year from 1998 to 2006 among women.
"This report is yet more proof we are creating a world with more birthdays," said John R. Seffrin, PhD, chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society and its advocacy affiliate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN).
"We will build on our progress in the fight against cancer through laws and policies that increase access to cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment services, and with a sustained federal investment in research designed to find breakthroughs in the prevention and treatment of the most deadly forms of cancer," said Seffrin.
ACS researchers estimate that there will be 1,529,560 new cancer cases and 569,490 deaths from cancer in 2010. Prostate, lung, and colorectal cancers will account for just over half of all new cancer diagnoses among men; in women, breast, lung, and colorectal cancers will account for about half of new cancer cases. Together, these 4 cancers account for half of all cancer deaths among men and women.
Even so, the report shows that among men, decreases in deaths from lung, prostate, and colorectal cancer account for approximately 80% of the declining death rate, while decreases in deaths from breast and colorectal cancer made up approximately 60% of the total decrease among women. Those numbers suggest early detection - such as colonoscopy to catch colon cancer early and mammography to catch breast cancer early - and improved treatments are having an effect. Fewer men are smoking, which accounts for much of the lower death rate from lung cancer; the lung cancer death rate among women has stabilized, even though it is still the leading cause of cancer death among women.
But not everyone is benefitting equally. African-American men have a 14% higher cancer incidence rate and a 34% higher overall cancer death rate compared to white men, according to the report. African-American women are less likely than white women to get cancer, but when they do get it, they're more likely to die from it.
While there has been much progress in understanding and combating cancer, there's clearly much more work to be done.
Each year, ACS researchers include a special section in Cancer Facts & Figures highlighting an issue of cancer research or care. This year, the topic is prostate cancer - its causes, prevention, early detection, and treatment. Despite the wealth of research on prostate cancer, there is much debate and uncertainty about whether or not to screen for it and how best to treat the disease. This section provides current information for both clinicians and patients.
To read the report, visit the Society's journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
Tapping into
"We are very pleased with the program's phenomenal start," said Maria Clark, Society regional vice president. "
Launched this spring and led by Society board member Scott Fischer of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,
Each member was nominated by a member of the Society's management team or Dallas Executive Management Board. Program participants were oriented into the Society at a breakfast hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, attended a tour of the
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Join us to celebrate "Giving Hope a Home"
Ribbon Cutting and Grand Opening
for
Hope Lodge Lubbock
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
10 a.m.
3511 10th Street
Reception immediately following ceremony. No RSVP required.
For questions, call 806.792.7128
Parking in Texas Tech S1 soccer lots west of Texas Tech Parkway at 10th Street.
Shuttle service available.
Can't make the Grand Opening?
Watch the ceremony online live Tuesday, June 29 at 10 am CST at www.hopelodgelubbock.org.
Hope Lodge Lubbock
When the Society opens its doors in 2010, the 32-room facility will offer free lodging and transportation to and from treatment for cancer patients - saving them an estimated $1.3 million annually in hotel expenses.
Hope Lodge Lubbock will be unique - the first Hope Lodge in Texas. It will also serve a unique niche by being located outside a major metropolitan area. Nationally, the priority has been to locate Hope Lodges in large cities, but it was medical professionals and community leaders in Lubbock who recognized the tremendous need for this primarily rural region.
FORT WORTH, Texas - A newly-awarded $75,000 grant from the Sid W. Richardson Foundation will provide vital cancer navigation services to help North Texas patients overcome barriers to care.
Every person receiving a cancer diagnosis faces fear and uncertainty. The fear and uncertainty for uninsured and low-income patients is often compounded by serious barriers to treatment.
The American Cancer Society provides both telephone and hospital-based navigators to help meet the complex needs of patients diagnosed with cancer. Patient navigation links patients to local resources, information and caring guidance needed to win their cancer battle, and this helps ensure the successful completion of treatment, reducing cancer suffering and saving lives and creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays.
"Low-income, uninsured patients often face transportation and financial roadblocks to treatment," said Maria Clark, Regional Vice President with the American Cancer Society,
This is the second Sid W. Richardson grant supporting the Society's navigation program. In 1996 the Foundation helped establish a full-time cancer navigator at the JPS Center for Cancer Care in
"The Sid W. Richardson Foundation provided startup funds for the American Cancer Society navigator at JPS to assure that at-risk patients would have the guidance they need to complete their cancer treatments," said Val Wilkie, the foundation's executive director. "This makes Fort Worth a healthier community".
The recently-announced grant will make similar guidance available by telephone, meeting a growing need of cancer patients throughout
For more information on the American Cancer Society, visit cancer.org or call 1-800-227-2345.
