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Our highly trained specialists are available 24/7 via phone and on weekdays can assist through video calls and online chat. We connect patients, caregivers, and family members with essential services and resources at every step of their cancer journey. Ask us how you can get involved and support the fight against cancer. Some of the topics we can assist with include:
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- Cancer Information
For medical questions, we encourage you to review our information with your doctor.
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- Common Questions About Causes of Cancer
- Is Cancer Contagious?
- Lifetime Risk of Developing or Dying From Cancer
- How to Interpret News About Cancer Causes
- Determining if Something Is a Carcinogen
- Known and Probable Human Carcinogens
- Cancer Clusters
- Cancer Warning Labels Based on California's Proposition 65
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- Reasons to Quit Smoking
- Health Benefits of Quitting Smoking Over Time
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- Making a Plan to Quit and Planning Your Quit Day
- Quitting Smoking or Smokeless Tobacco
- Quitting E-cigarettes
- Nicotine Replacement Therapy to Help You Quit Tobacco
- Dealing with the Mental Part of Tobacco Addiction
- Prescription Medicines to Help You Quit Tobacco
- Ways to Quit Tobacco Without Using Medicines
- Staying Tobacco-free After You Quit
- Help for Cravings and Tough Situations While You're Quitting Tobacco
- How to Help Someone Quit Smoking
- Why People Start Smoking and Why It’s Hard to Stop
- Keeping Your Kids Tobacco-free
- Empowered to Quit
- Harmful Chemicals in Tobacco Products
- Is Any Type of Tobacco Product Safe?
Quick Entrees: Healthy in a Hurry
Try these quick entrees when you’re hungry and in a hurry.
- Make whole wheat English muffin pizzas using pizza sauce and low-fat mozzarella cheese. Top with your favorite vegetables, such as mushrooms, chopped onion, chopped green pepper, tomato slices, broccoli florets, artichoke hearts... or anything else you like!
- Top Parmesan-flavored couscous or rice with cooked, chopped chicken and vegetables.
- Top pasta with marinara sauce and minced clams.
- Try mixing salad greens with whole wheat penne and the cubed low-fat cheese of your choice. Top with Caesar or Italian dressing – regular (small serving) or low-fat.
- Make quick-and-easy chili with ground turkey breast, canned kidney beans, tomato sauce, chopped onion, canned chopped tomatoes, and chili seasoning packet.
- Top whole wheat mini-bagels with peanut butter or low-fat cheese and a sliced apple.
- Stuff whole wheat tortillas with canned black beans, lettuce, salsa, low-fat shredded Cheddar cheese, and low-fat sour cream. Or swap out the sour cream with plain Greek yogurt.
- Microwave a potato and top with broccoli, cauliflower, and low-fat cheese or plain Greek yogurt.
The American Cancer Society medical and editorial content team
Our team is made up of doctors and oncology certified nurses with deep knowledge of cancer care as well as journalists, editors, and translators with extensive experience in medical writing.
Last Revised: October 18, 2021
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