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“It wasn’t an easy road to diagnosis,” said multiple myeloma patient Oya Gilbert. The Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, man was diagnosed after two years of seeking help for progressively painful episodes.
Oya's Story and Video
“It wasn’t an easy road to diagnosis,” said multiple myeloma patient Oya Gilbert. The Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, man was diagnosed after two years of seeking help for progressively painful episodes.
Oya's Story and VideoCancer is not a single disease, but rather a collection of diseases all characterized by the uncontrolled proliferation of cells.
Learn MoreScreening for Early Detection: Using evidence-based guidelines to screen for cancer can help find aberrations at the earliest possible detectable phase of cancer development and progression.
Read the ReportMore than 154,000 people in the United States were diagnosed with colorectal cancer last year. Read about the prevention, screening, and treatment options during Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
Learn MoreAACR Project GENIE is a publicly accessible international cancer registry of real-world data assembled through data sharing between many of the leading cancer centers in the world.
Learn MoreThe Week in Cancer News: A roundup of significant cancer research news from the past week, selected by the staff of Cancer Today magazine.
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The AACR Pediatric Cancer Progress Report 2025 highlights the remarkable progress against childhood cancers driven by discoveries across the basic, translational, clinical, and population sciences.
Learn MoreThe AACR and its more than 61,000 members worldwide are advancing a scientifically bold agenda against the collection of diseases we call cancer.
Learn MoreThe AACR Cancer Progress Report 2025 highlights research-driven advances against the collection of often devastating diseases we call cancer.
Learn Morepercent decrease of the overall age-adjusted cancer death rate in the U.S. from 1991 to 2023
Learn Moretherapeutics were approved for new or expanded uses by the FDA from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025
Learn Moremillion cancer survivors in the U.S. are living with, through, and beyond their disease thanks to research
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