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your American Cancer Society has been saving lives
for 100 years and we've seen quite a few changes in our time
what was the world like when we started a century ago
the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn you could get a car in any color you wanted
so long as it was black there were no PCs
smartphones no internet no vaccine for polio
not much hope for someone diagnosed with cancer back then
only one in ten lives could be saved from the disease
cancer was a word spoken of only
in whispers but in 1913 we came together
to change all that we built in army of volunteers
you spread the word in communities across the country by the 1930s
our efforts were showing real results more lives were being sick
but we knew more could be done cell
we enlisted the aid of prominent scientists and helped pioneer the field
of cancer research celebrities added their voices to the goddess
marshalling awareness and resources for further research
our work led to major medical advances like chemotherapy
and we promoted the Pap test and mammography as important screening tools
helping save millions of lives in the process when lung cancer deaths
skyrocketed in the nineteen fifties
we were there demonstrating irrefutably
the link between smoking in cancer
we supported scores a promising young researchers
with exciting new ideas the results groundbreaking advances
the change medicine forever in fact 46
have are funded researchers have gone on to win nobel prizes for their work
in 1971 we advocated for the passage
the National Cancer act it brought federal focus
in funding to the fight against cancer with greater resources and breakthrough
treatments saving more lives
we opened a new front to the back by providing first to their kind support
programs and services
for patients and survivors and with the help of our volunteers
we created the world's largest movement and cancer
with unique fundraising programs and events to power
and engage communities worldwide to finish the fight
today two out of three people diagnosed with cancer
by surviving and we celebrate 400 more birthdays
every day that would have otherwise been lost yes the world has changed quite a
bit since the start
and no one has done more in the fight against cancer
didn't we but there's still more to do and we need your help
so make your voice for help finish the fight
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