{"entity":{"id":"japan-cancer-society","kind":"institution","name":"Japan Cancer Society","aka":["日本対がん協会","公益財団法人 日本対がん協会"],"tldr":"Japan's national cancer charity since 1958: it promotes cancer screening through its regional branches, runs a free cancer hotline, and organises Relay For Life and the Pink Ribbon Festival in Japan.","summary":"The Japan Cancer Society is a public interest incorporated foundation (公益財団法人) founded in 1958 and based in Chuo-ku, Tokyo; its chair is Tadao Kakizoe, honorary president of the National Cancer Center. Its timeline records that screenings by its group organisations reached ten million in a single year in 1993 (counting repeat attendances), that a free telephone consultation with doctors began in 2002, and that its Cancer Hotline started in 2006. It also runs Relay For Life Japan, the Pink Ribbon Festival, a cancer survivors' club, free phone advice on cancer and work from social insurance consultants, research grants and cancer education. UICC lists it as a Full Member.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"団体概要 (organisation outline, Japanese)","url":"https://www.jcancer.jp/about/outline/"},{"label":"設立からの歩み (history, Japanese)","url":"https://www.jcancer.jp/about/history/"},{"label":"UICC member profile","url":"https://www.uicc.org/membership/japan-cancer-society"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["uicc"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Tokyo","country":"JP","lat":35.667,"lng":139.767,"institutionType":"consortium","website":"https://www.jcancer.jp","programs":["Cancer screening through the Japan Cancer Society group branches","Free cancer hotline","Relay For Life Japan","Pink Ribbon Festival","Cancer Survivors Club","Research grants for cancer screening"]},"route":"/institutions/japan-cancer-society/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"uicc","kind":"institution","name":"Union for International Cancer Control","route":"/institutions/uicc/"}]}}