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Our highly trained specialists are available 24/7 via phone and on weekdays can assist through 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:
- Referrals to patient-related programs or resources
- Donations, website, or event-related assistance
- Tobacco-related topics
- Volunteer opportunities
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For medical questions, we encourage you to review our information with your doctor.
- Why People Start Smoking and Why It’s Hard to Stop
- Reasons to Quit Smoking
- Health Benefits of Quitting Smoking Over Time
- Benefits of Quitting Tobacco If You Have Cancer
- Planning Your Quit Day
- Quitting Smoking or Smokeless Tobacco
- Quitting E-cigarettes (Vapes, Vape Pens)
- Nicotine Replacement Therapy
- Prescription Medicines to Help You Quit Tobacco
- Dealing with the Mental Part of Tobacco Addiction
- Are There Other Ways to Quit Tobacco?
- Staying Tobacco-free After You Quit
- Help for Cravings and Tough Situations
- Talking With Your Cancer Care Team About Tobacco Use
- How to Help Someone Quit Smoking
- Harmful Chemicals in Tobacco Products
- Is Any Type of Tobacco Product Safe?
- Keeping Your Children Tobacco-free
- Empowered to Quit
- Health Risks of Smoking Tobacco
- Health Risks of Smokeless Tobacco
- Health Risks of Secondhand Smoke
- ACS CancerRisk360
HIV Infection and Cancer
People infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are known as people living with HIV, or PLWH. PLWH includes people with early stages of HIV infection as well as people with advanced stages or AIDS ( acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). In general, PLWH who have an advanced stage of HIV infection or AIDS are at higher risk for some types of cancer.
Here we will provide a brief overview of HIV and discuss the risks of certain cancers in PLWH, what PLWH can do to reduce their cancer risk or find it early, and how these cancers are generally treated.
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