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CHICAGO, June 1, 2024 – The American Most cancers Society (ACS) and the American Society of Medical Oncology (ASCO) at present introduced an expanded collaboration to make it less complicated for sufferers to seek out authoritative most cancers info on-line. The partnership between ASCO, the main group for most cancers care suppliers, and ACS, the main affected person training, help, and advocacy group in most cancers, will create one of many largest and most complete on-line sources for credible most cancers info, accessible at no cost to the general public on most cancers.org. The collaboration was unveiled as the worldwide oncology neighborhood gathered to share and focus on the newest medical most cancers analysis remodeling affected person care on the 2024 ASCO Annual Assembly in Chicago.

The 2 organizations’ mixed deep medical experience and information of the newest most cancers science will assist sufferers and the most cancers neighborhood trust that they’re getting the very best info accessible.

“As a part of the ACS purpose to finish most cancers as we all know it, for everybody, it’s important that we enhance entry to trusted and up-to-date info on most cancers prevention, detection, and therapy,” stated Karen E. Knudsen, MBA, PhD, Chief Govt Officer for the American Most cancers Society and ACS Most cancers Motion Community. “The ACS-ASCO collaboration will obtain simply that and improve the depth and breadth of knowledge accessible to most cancers sufferers and their households.” 

“At ASCO, our members see day by day how complicated and painful it may be for too many sufferers and households as they attempt to make sense of most cancers info whereas they’re navigating a analysis and therapy,” stated ASCO’s Chief Govt Officer, Clifford A. Hudis, MD, FACP, FASCO. “This expanded partnership with ACS will enhance our potential to get participating and easy-to-understand most cancers info in entrance of many extra sufferers and their households, proper after they want it most.”

This collaboration combines the very best of the 2 organizations’ present websites, most cancers.org and most cancers.web, addressing the whole most cancers continuum from prevention and early detection by way of analysis, therapy, and survivorship. To make sure individuals with most cancers can simply discover and entry high-quality info as they handle their therapy and address the illness, ACS and ASCO are aligning efforts to offer a single repository of credible, high-quality most cancers info on most cancers.org. Most cancers.Web might be retired in early June and guests might be redirected to most cancers.org.

Combining sources to advance the Most cancers Moonshot

As a part of their ongoing help of the Biden Most cancers Moonshot, which was reignited by President Biden and First Woman Biden to finish most cancers as we all know it, ACS and ASCO labored collectively on this necessary strategic initiative to cut back duplication and discover efficiencies to enhance the expertise of individuals dealing with most cancers.

“The President and First Woman set two objectives for the Biden Most cancers Moonshot: to forestall greater than 4 million most cancers deaths by 2047, and to enhance the expertise of people who find themselves touched by most cancers,” stated Dr. Danielle Carnival, Deputy Assistant to the President for the Most cancers Moonshot. “The announcement at present that ACS and ASCO are introducing an expanded most cancers.org aligns with these objectives. With this motion, extra sufferers, households, and caregivers throughout America—in any respect phases of the most cancers journey—may have doubtlessly life-saving info at their fingertips.”

“Because the chief of the Nationwide Most cancers Program, the Nationwide Most cancers Institute (NCI) applauds this partnership, which demonstrates the worth of organizations working collectively,” stated NCI Director Dr. W. Kimryn Rathmell. “With the fast tempo of scientific development, we dwell in an period of heightened demand for dependable, well timed, data-driven most cancers info. Nonetheless, the specter of deceptive on-line info is actual. I firmly consider it’s our collective duty to help individuals with most cancers and their family members with correct, reliable info. NCI appears ahead to exploring how this new partnership will complement different affected person training efforts.”

A one-stop web site for most cancers info

This collaboration brings collectively two of essentially the most trusted and influential organizations in oncology. It leverages every group’s distinctive strengths to offer one location for most cancers info to succeed in much more sufferers and caregivers. By fostering stronger well being literacy alongside the most cancers continuum, this complete single supply of credible, informative most cancers content material will assist to help sufferers, households, and caregivers at each stage of their most cancers journey.

ACS and ASCO have lengthy shared a dedication to empowering individuals with high-quality details about most cancers. In early 2022, the 2 organizations launched a partnership to offer shared content material on most cancers survivorship, long-term uncomfortable side effects of therapy, fertility, and post-traumatic stress by way of Most cancers.org. The outcomes of this pilot program demonstrated the effectiveness of mixing sources to make sure most attain and influence of their content material, paving the way in which for additional collaboration at present.

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In regards to the American Most cancers Society

The American Most cancers Society is a number one cancer-fighting group with a imaginative and prescient to finish most cancers as we all know it, for everybody. For greater than 110 years, we now have been bettering the lives of individuals with most cancers and their households as the one group combating most cancers by way of advocacy, analysis, and affected person help. We’re dedicated to making sure everybody has a chance to forestall, detect, deal with, and survive most cancers. To study extra, go to most cancers.org or name our 24/7 helpline at 1-800-227-2345. Join with us on Fb, X, and Instagram.

About ASCO

Based in 1964, the American Society of Medical Oncology, Inc. (ASCO®) is dedicated to the precept that information conquers most cancers. Along with the Affiliation for Medical Oncology, ASCO represents practically 50,000 oncology professionals who look after individuals residing with most cancers. By means of analysis, training, and promotion of top quality, equitable affected person care, ASCO works to overcome most cancers and create a world the place most cancers is prevented or cured, and each survivor is wholesome. Conquer Most cancers, the ASCO Basis, helps ASCO by funding groundbreaking analysis and training throughout most cancers’s full continuum. Study extra at www.ASCO.org, and comply with us on Fb, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube. For affected person training sources, please go to Most cancers.org to seek out info collectively curated and vetted by ASCO and ACS.