Advances in genetics have fundamentally changed how physicians think about breast cancer care—and now that thinking is transforming patients’ choices and experiences.
Health Equity
Members of the LGBTQIA+ community are seeking care less than the rest of the population. Researchers point to the health care systems.
Join the Fight
How Anyone Can Support the Fight Against Breast Cancer
While a breast cancer diagnosis might identify what’s ailing a patient, it begins a series of new and life-changing questions.
Get Active
Walk the Walk: Inside Boston’s Iconic Making Strides Event
A look inside the ACS’s biggest event of the year for the fight against breast cancer, and how you can help.
Giving Back
All the Ways You Can Volunteer to Support Breast Cancer Patients in Boston
For breast cancer patients, medical attention is a necessity, but is often obstructed by financial, social, and psychological hurdles.
Community Support
How Your Shopping Routine Can Support Finding a Breast Cancer Cure
Through the generosity and engagement of communities like ours here in Boston, this grocery store brings in around $1.6 million each October.
Doctor Spotlight
Dr. Amy Comander, medical director of the Mass General Cancer Center in Waltham, director of breast oncology at the Mass General Cancer Center at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and director of lifestyle medicine at Mass General Cancer Center, shares how she cares for the whole patient.
American Cancer Society Bicycles Battling Cancer
Sept. 17
CAMP LOWE YMCA,
132 FORT POND INN ROAD,
LANCASTER,MA
American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Framingham, Natick, Sherborn, Ashland Holliston
Sept. 30—Oct. 1
BOWDITCH FIELD
FRAMINGHAM, MA
American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Boston
Oct. 1
DCR HATCH SHELL
47 DAVID G. MUGAR WAY, BOSTON
The American Cancer Society Boston Key Gala benefiting the Boston Hope Lodge
Oct. 13
OMNI BOSTON HOTEL AT THE SEAPORT
The American Cancer Society Men Wear Pink of Boston
Ongoing through Dec. 31
The American Cancer Society’s ResearcHERS of New England: Women Fighting Cancer Campaign
Ongoing through Dec. 31
Boston Young Professionals of the American Cancer Society
Events and volunteer opportunities ongoing through Dec. 31