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Imagine that a family friend or colleague has just been diagnosed with cancer. Explain how the American Cancer Society might provide education and support. What ACS services would you recommend and why?
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There are more than a million people in US that get cancer in their lifetime each year. Understanding what to expect when you have cancer can help you cope with it. The American Cancer Society can help you find basic information about cancer, what causes cancer, and help you fight the cancer by offering treatment options.
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Imagine that a family friend or colleague has just been diagnosed with cancer. Explain how the American Cancer Society might provide education and support. What ACS services would you recommend and why?
The American Cancer Society will provide education and support for someone that has been diagnosed with cancer by providing information about the basics of cancer so that you can learn how to fight it. ACS provide an overview of cancer in which it is a disease where cells in the body begin to grow out of control. Cancer is a group of diseases that can cause different signs or symptoms, depending on where it is in the body. The ACS educate people about the origin of cancer in that it first appear in the lymph nodes in two ways: it either starts there or spread from somewhere else. The ACS can educate patients about what kind of cancer they have and how to treat it. The ACS have tons of answers for the many questions about cancer. The questions that patients ask about cancer are, " Is Cancer Contagious?" By knowing the ...
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