{{for|the El-P album|Cancer 4 Cure}} {{refimprove |date=August 2016}} {{infobox song | name = Cancer for the Cure | cover = Eels-CancerForTheCure.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Eels | album = Electro-Shock Blues | B-side = {{ubl|"Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas"|"Exodus Part III"}} | released = {{Start date|1998|11|30}} | recorded = 1997–1998<ref>https://eelstheband.com/biography/</ref> | studio = | genre = | length = 4:45 | label = DreamWorks | writer = {{flatlist| * E * Mickey P. }} | producer = {{flatlist| * E * Mickey P. }} | prev_title = Last Stop: This Town | prev_year = 1998 | next_title = Mr. E's Beautiful Blues | next_year = 2000 }}

"'''Cancer for the Cure'''" is a song by American rock band Eels. It was released on November 30, 1998, as a single from their 1998 album ''Electro-Shock Blues''. It peaked at number 60 in the UK Singles Chart.<ref>{{cite web |title=Eels <nowiki>| Full Official Chart History |</nowiki> Official Charts Company |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/2608/eels/ |accessdate=August 26, 2016 |website=Official Charts Company}}</ref>

== Release ==

The song featured in the soundtrack to the 1999 DreamWorks film ''American Beauty''. Tom Baker of ''DIY Magazine'' found its use to be memorable and that it highlighted "the whole “seedy suburbia” angle."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2013-01-31 |title=Three Stages Of Eels: A Beginners Guide To Eels |url=https://diymag.com/feature/three-stages-of-eels#:~:text=Cancer%20For%20The%20Cure,come%20in%20for%20the%20chorus. |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=DIY |language=en}}</ref>

== Reception == Tom Baker of ''DIY Magazine'' saw the song as another "counter-cultural theme songs, a la ‘Novocaine…’, creeping, creepy howling voices, grinding industrial noises, and singing about “kids diggin’ up a brand new hole / Where to put deadbeat mom,” followed by sinister laughter." describing the song as, "Blacker than black, even when the Monster Mash organs come in for the chorus."<ref name=":0" />

==Track listing==

;CD single {{Track listing | all_writing = | title1 = Cancer for the Cure | length1 = 4:45 | title2 = Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas | length2 = 2:50 | title3 = Exodus Part III | length3 = 2:32 | title4 = | length4 = | title5 = | length5 = | title6 = | length6 = | title7 = | length7 = | title8 = | length8 = | title9 = | length9 = | title10 = | length10 = | total_length = | note3 = omitted on vinyl single | writer1 = {{hlist|E|Mickey P.}} }}

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==External links== *{{MusicBrainz release group|id=904e4053-8bbb-339e-a53c-ebb9ccdd4ce1|name=Cancer for the Cure}}

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