This week, 100 years ago, the American Cancer Society pledged itself to the fight against cancer. With your help we can finish that fight and make cancer a mere thing of the past. Today brings a big, new opportunity to take one simple action with far-reaching implications for yourself and our world.
This infographic focuses on tips to help you reduce your skin cancer risk. Skin cancer is the most common of all cancer types. More than 3.5 million cases of non-melanoma skin cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States and nearly 77,000 cases of melanoma are expected to be diagnosed in 2013.
This infographic highlights current research that shows the significant cancer risk of excess body weight, poor nutrition and physical inactivity. It also highlights ways to reduce that risk by following American Cancer Society guidelines for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight.
Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the US, yet more than 45 million Americans still smoke cigarettes. See the significant harm, both financial and physical, that tobacco use causes to the smoker and to society at large.
