Promoting a State and a Nation of Cancer Prevention
Periodically, we will publish articles by legislators who recognize the importance of preventing cancer as well as helping patients with the disease and who have sponsored and supported legislative efforts to improve cancer prevention and early detection. Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) is such a leader. [more]

Carolyn Aldige: A Passionate Fighter for Cancer Prevention
Edward Perry Richardson, a war veteran, a husband and a father died on August 1, 1984. In so many ways his life was blissfully simple. Yet through his fight with cancer he sparked something extraordinary. [more]

Spotlight On...
Bob Hoover is widely recognized as one of the nation's leading cancer epidemiologists for his pioneering research in identifying environmental and genetic determinants of cancer. [more]

Billionaires Bloomberg, Gates Join Anti-Smoking Battle
The global scourge of smoking has two powerful new enemies. [more]

Graphic Matchbooks, Tough TV Ads Target New York's Smokers
Stained teeth and rotting gums, decimated lungs, inflamed tumors - these are just some of the sights now confronting smokers who light up in New York, thanks to that city's distribution of thousands of free matchbooks emblazoned with images of the ravages of smoking. [more]

New ACS Colon Cancer Guidelines
In new colon cancer screening guidelines released earlier this year, an expert panel at the American Cancer Society for the first time expressly advocated tests ... [more]