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- EIN 41-0724036
- (262) 523-5500
- N19 W24350 Riverwood Drive Waukesha WI 53188 USA
- www.cancer.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Cancer
Mission: The american cancer society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
Programs: Patient support programs assist cancer patients and their families in an effort to ease the burden of the disease. Relay for life and making strides against breast cancer- see schedule o grants to affiliates $161,000
detection and treatment programs seek to find cancer before it is clinically apparent and provide information and education about options for treatment, a cure, recurrence, symptom management, and pain control. Relay for life and making strides against breast cancer- see schedule o grants to affiliates $128,000
prevention programs, derived in part on our cancer research, provide the public and health professionals with information and education to prevent cancer occurrence and to reduce the risk of developing cancer. Relay for life and making strides against breast cancer- see schedule o grants to affiliates $136,000
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