American Cancer Society is a global communal-based charitable health organization centering on cancer eradication. This organization deals with this widespread issue by saving lives, minimizing cancer cases and averting cancer via conducting services, education and advocacy. American Cancer Society is subdivided into 13 geographical divisions consisting of both lay volunteers and medical personnel in over 3,400 offices all over Puerto Rico and the US. The National Home Office, on the other hand, is in Atlanta, Georgia at the American Cancer Society Center.
The American Cancer Society was formerly instituted by 15 businessmen and physicians in 1913 in New York City and before adopting its current name in 1945, it was known as ASCC or American Society for the Control of Cancer. The society adopted a sword as its symbol which was designed in 1928 by George E. Durant who came from Brooklyn, New York. According to George’s explanation, the two serpents that form the handle of the sword are symbols of the medical and scientific focal point of the American Cancer Society main mission. The blade stands for the cancer control movement’s crusading spirit.
The American Cancer society’s activities involve conducting public health campaigns, offering research grants and managing projects. These projects include Daffodil Days, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, Great American Smokeout and Relay for Life. The organization has an additional number of stores for raising operational funds. An example of a prominent endorsement used for raising income for the American Cancer Society is the Hopkins 4K for Cancer, which is a bike ride covering a distance of 4000 miles from Baltimore to San Francisco.
In 1994, an industry publication known as Chronicle of Philanthropy, released the outcome of an investigation involving non-profit and charitable organization credibility and popularity done by Nye Lavalle & Associates. From the analysis, it was evident that American Cancer Society attained the tenth position as the top charity/non-profit in the United States of America out of a total of 100 charities. Moreover, Love and Like A lot for the Society was chosen by 38 percent of Americans.
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The American Cancer Society has donated money to a total of forty-two Nobel Prize laureates consisting of Walter Gilbert, James D. Watson, E. Donnall Thomas, Mario Capecchi, Paul Berg and Oliver Smithies.
The International Journal of Cancer, in 2001, released a Norwegian investigation involving over 44,000 teenage girls and women. The study showed that the risk of being prone to breast cancer goes down by 50% when one drinks milk from their teenage stages to adulthood. Volume 93 starting on the 888th page, clearly explains this theory. The report can also be found on the website of National Dairy Association.
An American Cancer Society-funded investigation issued in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1991 indicated that children between the ages of 3 and 6 noticed the cartoon character Joe Camel, of the RJ Reynolds Association Tobacco Company as they did with Mickey Mouse.