Relay for Life of Polk County

Mission Statement

The mission of the American Cancer Society is to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Get Involved

Help #EndCancer I'm supporting the American Cancer Society and you can, too! Please join me to #EndCancer volunteer, donate to save lives, and fund the future of cancer research, patient support, and advocacy through Relay for Life!

Relay for Life of Polk County is a volunteer fundraising group through The American Cancer Society, Inc. The communities currently talking about this topic of cancer, survivorship, and fundraising are those that are affected by this devasting disease and those who are caregivers. Health professionals around the globe are working to research, advocate, and educate the public on cancer risks to improve lives. The American Cancer Society is a titan when it comes to cancer research and they have invested more than $5 billion in cancer research since 1946, all to find more – and better – treatments, uncover factors that may cause cancer, and improve cancer patients' quality of life.

An annual event will be held in Polk County, FL to celebrate, remember, and fight back to help end cancer as we know it. At this event we will remember cancer survivors, celebrate caregivers, and remember our warriors in a Luminaria Ceremony. Please join the movement and help us end cancer as we know it by being a volunteer, advocate, and fundraising to keep the research going around the globe.

As of March 25, 2023, the organization has raised over $30,000 the goal for this year is $70,000 please join the fight now and bring a friend. We need you more than ever to #EndCancer.

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Relay for Life of

Polk County

WAYS TO PARTICIPATE

Annual Fundraising Event

FRIDAY JUNE 2, 2023

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

LAKE MIRROR PROMENADE

121 S Lake Ave, Lakeland, FL 33801

RELAY FOR LIFE

of

Polk County

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Current Grants by Cancer Type American Cancer Society

Current as of January 4, 2023

≠ Applies to all cancers: The grant projects included here have relevance to cancer in general but have not been designated to any specific cancer type.

** Total number of grants does not equal the sum of the numbers shown in the number of grants column. In many cases, a grant project may have a focus that is linked to more than one type of cancer because of similarities between cancers. Thus, an individual grant project may be listed in more than one cancer type.

Glossary Funded Amount - The total value of funding that was awarded to a single, or a group of, research or training grants for a specific type of cancer (or area of cancer research) and includes funding for some grant projects that may be minimally related to that type of cancer (or area of cancer research).

Specific Amount - The portion of the total funding that was awarded to a single research project for a specific type of cancer. The specific amount is calculated by multiplying the total funded amount by the percent relevance for the type of cancer in question.

For example, a project with a funded amount of $120,000 that's been coded with 50% relevance to the cancer type "lung" has specific funding of $60,000 (120,000 x 0.50) for "lung."

Total Specific Amount for a Particular Type of Cancer - The total specific funding for a particular type of cancer in the entire research and training program is the sum of the specific funding for each type of cancer within all research and training grant projects.

Words from https://www.cancer.org/research/currently-funded-cancer-research/grants-by-cancer-type.html

Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back.