But 15 doctors and businessmen in New York City thought cancer deserved serious attention, so they founded the American Society for the Control of Cancer.

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According to the latest data from the Center for Disease Control and the American Cancer Society, more than ten million Americans are living with some form of cancer.

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Todd, director of tobacco control at the American Cancer Society, has his doubts.

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"In Africa, these health care systems don't exist, at least not in the form we're used to, " says Tom Glynn, Director of International Care Control for the American Cancer Society.

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