Put Prostate Cancer on the Bench!

A free prostate cancer workshop and non-invasive screening is offered on Saturday, October 10 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the E.C. Tyree Health and Dental Clinic at St. Mark United Methodist Church at 1525 North Lorraine in Wichita, Kan. Participants will be eligible to win free tickets to the NBA preseason game played [...]

Sen. McCaskill Discusses Tobacco and Health Care Reform With Missouri Advocates

Barry Waggoner of St. Charles traveled with a team of Missouri cancer advocates to Washington DC and met Tuesday with Sen. Claire McCaskill. The Missourians thanked Sen. McCaskill for her co-sponsorship of a federal law to regulate tobacco products and discussed the current health care reform debate and its importance to cancer patients and their [...]

American Cancer Society Recognizes Media Award Winners

AUSTIN, Texas–September 15, 2009–The American Cancer Society, High Plains Division, Inc., announced the winners today of its annual media awards program for excellence in cancer journalism, according to vice-president of the Division Communications Department, Jackie Bayly-Bryant. The Media Awards officially recognize journalists in the Society’s High Plains Division (Hawaii, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas) for [...]

Society Research Grantees Receive Top Honor for Gleevec

American Cancer Society Research Program grantees Brian Druker, M.D., of Oregon Health & Science University and Charles Sawyers, M.D., of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, have been awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in medicine, the Lasker Award. The Lasker Awards recognize the contributions of scientists, physicians and public servants internationally working to cure, treat, [...]

American Cancer Society Honors Corporate Volunteers

More than 150 individual corporate volunteers, sponsors and media partners were recognized today at a luncheon hosted by the American Cancer Society at the Ramada Inn in downtown Topeka. “Volunteers are the backbone of our organization,” explains Stephanie Weiter, Society regional vice president in Kansas. “We are truly fortunate to have so many generous corporations who [...]