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Cancer Policy and Funding: How do we avoid falling off the funding cliff?

Monday, April 19

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. (EST)

Healthcare Reform: The Confluence of Comparative Effectiveness, Health IT, and Personalized Medicine

Tuesday, April 20

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Integrating Science and Policy to Combat the Global Tobacco Epidemic

Tuesday, April 20

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Recent AACR Policy Press Releases:

AACR Joins U.S. Senators in Recognizing 40th Anniversary of the National Cancer Act (Nov. 17, 2011)

AACR Urges Congress to Safeguard Funding for FDA, Cites 35 Drug Approvals in 2011 as Validation of Agency's Effectiveness (Nov. 10, 2011)

Ruling Blocking Graphic Cigarette Health Warnings Presents Major Setback for Public Health (Nov. 9, 2011)

AACR CEO Margaret Foti to Receive Research!America Advocacy Award (Oct. 11, 2011)

AACR to Honor Three Congressional Leaders with Distinguished Public Service Awards (Sept. 21, 2011)

AACR Releases Landmark Cancer Progress Report (Sept. 20, 2011)

AACR Cancer Progress Report 2011

Transforming Patient Care Through Innovation

This landmark report has been designed as a comprehensive informational tool that illustrates the astounding return on investment in cancer and biomedical research supported through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and provides a summary of the scientific breakthroughs that promise to revolutionize the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer.

We invite you to read through this document, share it with your colleagues and constituencies, post the report on your website and use social media to link to it.

www.cancerprogressreport.org