American Cancer Society

The American Cancer Society was founded in 1913 in New York City by 10 doctors and five laypeople as the American Society for the Control of Cancer, and was reorganised under its present name in 1945, according to its own history page. The same page states that it has invested more than $5 billion in research since 1946, when Mary Lasker and colleagues raised the money that started its research programme, and that Sidney Farber was one of its first research grantees. Its about pages describe a mission to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research and patient support, a helpline staffed by cancer information specialists around the clock, and 1.3 million volunteers. The IRS record lists it in Atlanta, Georgia. Its venture arm, ACS BrightEdge, invests in cancer companies.