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Cancer: A 100 Year Timeline

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Cancer Research Project By: Kelly Reese
Cancer is the disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body. Cancer has affected 13.7 million people since 2012. It affects people and animals in different ways. This disease makes people ill and can even cause death. Even though the cells are in everyone’s bodies you may never become sick with this disease.
The Fight to End Cancer: A 100 Year Timeline | American …. In 1913 fifteen businessmen in New York City formed the American Society for the Control of Cancer and later renamed it the American Cancer Society. In 1936 a group of passionate women formed the Women’s Field Army were women went to the streets to help educate people about cancer and raise money to save lives. In 1946 Mary Lasker and her colleagues revolutionize the Society’s mission and fundraising efforts, helping raise more than $4 million and in 1947 “the first successful chemotherapy treatment for cancer was discovered.” …show more content…

Smoking prevention work helps lead to a 50% decrease in smoking and a reduction in the rate of death due to lung cancer. In 1971 The American Cancer Society played a leading role in the passage of this act, which is studied to be the most dramatic piece of health legislation ever achieved. In 1976 “First Great American

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