National Cancer Research Month

To commemorate National Cancer Research Month, the AACR has a variety of awareness activities scheduled:
 

• Listen to the radio spots on KYW Radio featuring the AACR and some of Philadelphia's top researchers.
• Watch the TV spots that began Thursday, May 7, on the local WPVI-TV station.
• National Cancer Research Month street banners decorate the streets of Philadelphia during this month.
• AACR leaders went to Washington, D.C. to meet with Members of Congress on National Lobby Day, Wednesday, May 6. 

Learn more about the American Association for Cancer Research and make a donation to support cancer research. 

History

In recognition of the American Association for Cancer Research's Centennial, and its focus on every aspect of high-quality, innovative cancer research, the United States Congress officially declared the month of May as National Cancer Research Month.

The AACR secured resolutions from the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives to raise awareness of the critical advances in cancer research made by its more than 28,000 members and cancer researchers worldwide, and its efforts to ensure a secure future for continued progress against a group of diseases which strike half of all men and one in three women.

These resolutions support the AACR's dissemination of new knowledge about cancer to speed translation of new scientific discoveries for the benefit of cancer patients and the 10 million cancer survivors living in America today.