The American Cancer Society raises money through the sale
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RUMFORD – Each year in March, the American Cancer Society’s Daffodil Days provides an opportunity for people to held fight cancer.
Contributions received through the sale of daffodils help to keep the society’s resources in place for those in Maine who are or have been affected by cancer.
Daffodils are available in bouquets of 10 flowers for $7; a Gift of Hope, a bouquet arranged in a glass vase and given anonymously to a cancer patient in a local hospital or nursing home, is available for $20.
To order daffodils or volunteer for Daffodil Days, call the American Cancer Society at 800-464-3102, press 3. Daffodil Days takes place during the week of March 22 in the Rumford area. The deadline for ordering is March 5.
Donations received from the sale of daffodils also help the society to devote more than $100 million each year to cancer research.
Last spring in Maine, the society awarded its largest grant ever in the state of Maine. Dr. Tatyana Golovkina, staff scientist at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, received a $720,000 award to support her research focusing on how genetic variations result in susceptibility or resistance to cancer, specifically in the study of breast cancer and soft tissue sarcomas.
The American Cancer Society provides information and services to cancer patients and their loved ones. Contributions make a difference in many ways:
• For those cancer patients who do not have rides to treatment, the Society’s Road to Recovery program provides rides.
• For women whose cancer treatment has caused hair loss and other physical changes, the Look Good-Feel Better program teaches them beauty techniques.
• For women newly diagnosed with breast cancer or men with prostate cancer, the Reach to Recovery program and the Man to Man program provide support from trained volunteers who themselves are breast or prostate cancer survivors.
• For anyone, both the society’s free toll-free cancer information line, 800-227-2345 and Web site, www.cancer.org, provide information about cancer and patient services 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
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