American Association for Cancer Research

Reports of Scientific Meetings

The AACR’s cutting-edge scientific meetings and high-impact journals work in concert to support the Association’s mission of fostering the prevention and cure of cancer through research, education, communication, and collaboration. The journals of the AACR offer a vital forum for important scientific meetings conducted by the Association and by other scientific societies.

AACR journals routinely publish peer-reviewed Meeting Reports written by high-profile scientists. In addition, the journals occasionally publish Supplement issues containing the proceedings of important meetings in full-length peer-reviewed articles.

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Reports of AACR Meetings

Meetings Held in 2009

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Developmental Origins of Cancer Symposium

University of Minnesota from February 28-March 1, 2009
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2009
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-1391

 

Regulatory Myeloid Suppressor Cells in Health and Disease

International Meeting held in Clearwater, Florida from March 8-11, 2009
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2009
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-2152

 

2009 Biospecimen Research Network Symposium: Advancing Cancer Research through Biospecimen Science 

National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, from March 16-18, 2009
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2009
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-1795

 

Meeting Report on the Second Targeted Tumor Therapies

Held in Berlin, Germany, from April 1–3, 2009
Meeting Report: Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 2010
DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-09-0491

 

Frontiers of Biomedical Imaging Science 2009: Workshop Report and Research

Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, from June 2 to 5, 2009 
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2009
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-2521

 

Systems Biologists Seek Fuller Integration of Systems Biology Approaches in New Cancer Research

This workshop took place in Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany, June 7–10, 2009 
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2009
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-2676

 

Twenty-First Annual Pezcoller Symposium: Unconventional Therapeutic Targets in Cancer

The 21st Pezcoller Symposium, entitled "Unconventional Therapeutic Targets in Cancer," was held in Trento, Italy, on June 11–13, 2009
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2009
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-3368

 

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Meetings Held in 2008

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Brain Metastasis: Opportunities in Basic and Translational Research

Held January 30-February 1, 2008 at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD  Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2009
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-4347

 

Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition

Cold Spring Harbor, New York from March 14-17, 2008 
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2008
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-2316

 

Advances and Challenges in Basic and Translational Research on Clusterin

Spetses, Greece  on June 2-5, 2008
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2009
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-2912

 

Twentieth Annual Pezcoller Symposium: Molecular Biology of Cancer

Trento, Italy from June 11-13, 2008
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2009
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-3155

 

Eph Receptors and Ephrinsin Cancer: Common Themes and Controversies

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, from June 25-26, 2008 Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2008
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-3010

 

Metastasis Research Society- AACR Joint Conference on Metastasis

Held in Vancouver, British Columbia from August 3-7, 2008
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2008
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-3360

 

Breast Cancer Metastasis: Challenges and Opportunities

Held at the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
From October 18, 2008
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2009
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-0099

 

Building Scientific Progress without Borders: Nanobiology and Nanomedicine in China and the U.S.

This first Joint China-U.S. Symposium was held October 21 to 23, 2008, in Beijing, China
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2009
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-0563

 

Seventh Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research

Held November 16-19, 2008 in Washington, DC
Meeting Report: Cancer Prevention Research 2009
DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-09-0128

 

Tumor Immunology: New Perspectives

AACR Special Conference held in Miami, Florida from December 2-5, 2008
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2009
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-0631

 

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Meetings Held in 2007

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Derepression in the Desert: The Third Workshop on Clinical Translation of Epigenetics in Cancer Therapeutics

Phoenix, AZ, in January 2007
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2008
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-6779

 

In the Forefront of Basic and Translational Cancer Research: Seventh Joint Conference of the American Association for Cancer Research and the Japanese Cancer Association

Waikoloa, HI, on January 21-25, 2007
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2007
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-1102

 

Mechanism and Therapeutic Reversal of Immune Suppression in Cancer

Clearwater Beach, Florida, January 25-28, 2007
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2007
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-0897

 

Chemistry in Cancer Research: A Vital Partnership

Hosted by the Chemistry in Cancer Research Working Group (CICR) of the AACR, February 4-7, 2007, in San Diego, CA
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2007
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-1619

 

Advances and Challenges in Aerodigestive Epithelial Cancer: Meeting Summary and Research Opportunities

Held in Charleston, South Carolina, February 6–9, 2007
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2007
DOI: 10.1158//0008-5472.CAN-07-1733

 

Translational Research at the Aging and Cancer Interface

San Diego, CA from February 20-23, 2007
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2007
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-1236

 

Approaches to Complex Pathways in Molecular Epidemiology: Summary of a Special Conference of the AACR

Held in the Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico on May 30-June 2, 2007 Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2008
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-1690

 

XIII International Charles Heidelberger Symposium and 50 Years of Fluoropyrimidines in Cancer Therapy

New York University Cancer Institute, New York on September 6-8, 2007
Meeting Report: Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 2009
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-3155

 

XXIII International Association for Comparative Research on Leukemia and Related Diseases Symposium: from Molecular Pathogenesis to Targeted Therapy in Leukemia and Solid Tumors

The 23rd biannual Symposium of the International Association for Comparative Research on Leukemia and Related Diseases (IACRLRD) was held September 7-11, 2007 in Freiburg, Germany
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2008
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-6859

 

On the Eve of Personalized Medicine in Oncology

Held from October 24-28, 2007 in the Bahamas and hosted by the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer & Research Institute Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2008
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-1374

 

Rethinking Brain Tumors: The Fourth Mouse Models of Human Cancers Consortium Nervous System Tumors Workshop

Held November 2007, in Gaylord, TX
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2008 
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-0703

 

Profiling of Immune Response to Guide Cancer Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Prediction of Therapy

Held on November 27 and 28, 2007 in Washington, DC
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2008
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-0521

 

Meeting Report: Sixth Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research

6th Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research held on December 5-8, 2007, in Philadelphia, PA
Meeting Report: Cancer Prevention Research 2008
DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-08-0023

 

Linking Tobacco Control Policies and Practices to Early Cancer Endpoints: Surveillance as an Agent for Change

Held in Philadelphia, PA in December, 2007
Meeting Report: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 2008
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0563

 

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Meetings Held in 2006

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Proteasome Inhibitor Drugs on the Rise

AACR Special Conference, January 18-22, 2006, Orlando, Florida
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2006
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-2033

 

Cancer Stem Cells—Perspectives on Current Status and Future Directions: AACR Workshop on Cancer Stem Cells

AACR Workshop was held on February 2-4, 2006 in Lansdowne, Virginia
Special Workshop Report: Cancer Research 2006
DOI:  10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-3126

 

I2 Imaging: Cancer Biology and the Tumor Microenvironment

(NCI)–sponsored think tank held in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 8-10, 2006
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2006
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-3102

 

Cancer Chemoprevention and Cancer Preventive Vaccines—A Call to Action: Leaders of Diverse Stakeholder Groups Present Strategies for Overcoming Multiple Barriers to Meet an Urgent Need

Special Workshop June 12–13, 2006 in Bethesda, Maryland, at a "Cancer Prevention Research Summit," organized by C-Change with support from the AACR
Special Workshop Report: Cancer Research 2006
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-4122

 

Eighteenth Annual Pezcoller Symposium: Tumor Microenvironment and Heterotypic Interactions

Symposium was held in Trento, Italy, from June 27-29, 2006
Symposium Report: Cancer Research 2006
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-3149

 

Mitochondrial DNA and Cancer Epidemiology

The Analytic Epidemiology Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) hosted this meeting in Bethesda, Maryland, on September 7-8, 2006
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2007
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-4119

 

A Tribute to George F. Vande Woude, a Man of Character: 2006 Scientific Symposium Winning the War against Cancer: From Genomics to Bedside and Back 

September 10 to 12, 2006 at the Van Andel Research Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2007
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-4304

 

The 3rd Pacific Rim Meeting on Breast and Prostate Cancer: Progress in Hormonal Carcinogenesis and the Enduring Influence of Ron Ross

Held in Queensland, Australia, from October 31 to November 4, 2006
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2007
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-0280

 

Eleventh Prouts Neck Meeting on Prostate Cancer: Emerging Strategies in Prostate Cancer Therapy

Held on November 2-5, 2006, in Prouts Neck, Maine
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2007
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-1529

 

The 11th International Conference on Differentiation Therapy and Innovative Therapeutics in Oncology

Held November 4-8, 2006 Versailles, France Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2007
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-1152 

 

Fifth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research

Held in Boston, Massachusetts, in November 12-15, 2006
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2007
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-3171

 

MicroRNA: Potential for Cancer Detection, Diagnosis, and Prognosis

Held on November 28 and 29, 2006 in Rockville, Maryland
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2007
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-2888

 

Innovations in Prostate Cancer Research

AACR Special Conference, December 6-9, 2006, in San Francisco, CA
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2008
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-3232

 

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Meetings Held in 2005

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Clinical Translation of Epigenetics in Cancer: eMCORe-A Report on the Second Workshop

Workshop, January, 2005, Charleston, South Carolina Meeting Report: Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 2005 4: 1810-1819

 

Regulation of Cell Death in Oncogenesis

AACR Special Conference, January 26-30, 2005, Waikoloa, Hawaii
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2005 65: 8069-8071

 

Oncogenomics 2005: Dissecting Cancer through Genome Research

AACR Special Conference, February 2-5, 2005, San Diego, California
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2005 65: 8587-8590

 

10th Biennial Helene Harris Memorial Trust Meeting

Meeting, April 2005, Washington, DC
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2006
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-2093

 

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Recent Advances and Future Directions in Endocrine Therapy for Breast Cancer

The Fifth International Conference, June 13-14, 2005, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Meeting Report: Clinical Cancer Research 2006
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-05-2268

 

Mouse Models of Human Cancers Consortium Workshop on Nervous System Tumors

NCI Workshop, June 17-18, 2005, St. Louis, Missouri
Workshop Report: Cancer Research 2006
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-3180

 

Modeling Human Cancer: Report on the Eighth Beatson International Cancer Conference

International Conference, June 19-22, 2005, in Glasgow, United Kingdom Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2005
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-05-2054

 

Towards Clinical Application of Methylated DNA Sequences as Cancer Biomarkers: A Joint NCI's EDRN and NIST Workshop on Standards, Methods, Assays, Reagents and Tools

August 18-19, 2005 at National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2007
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-2888

 

Novel Agents in the Treatment of Lung Cancer: Advances in EGFR-Targeted Agents

The Third Conference, September 23 to 24, 2005, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Meeting Report: Clinical Cancer Research 2006
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-06-1005

 

Exploiting the Tumor Microenvironment for Therapeutics

2nd International Tumor Metabolism Summit, October 7 to 8, 2005, Genoa, Italy
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2006
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-0069  

 

The Markers and Tissue Resources for Melanoma

Meeting convened by the Cancer Diagnosis Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, Specialized Programs of Research Excellence at the Organ Systems Branch of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the Melanoma Research Foundation was held in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on October 27-28, 2005
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2006
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-0921

 

Antiangiogenesis and Drug Delivery to Tumors: Bench to Bedside and Back

AACR Special Conference, November 9-12, 2005, Waltham, Massachusetts
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2006
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-4536

 

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Meetings Held in 2004

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Highlights of the NCI Workshop on Mitochondrial Function and Cancer

NCI Workshop, February 22-24, 2004, Bethesda, Maryland
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2004 64: 7460-7644

 

Symposium on Androgen Action in Prostate Cancer

March 4-6, 2004, Keystone, Colorado
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2004 64: 7178-7180

 

New Frontiers in Translational Research in Neuro-oncology and the Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption Consortium Meeting

March 17-20, 2004, Sun River, Oregon
Meeting Report: Clinical Cancer Research 2005 11: 421-428

 

Innovations and Challenges in Renal Cancer: Consensus Statement from the First Interantional Conference

March 19, 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Meeting Report: Clinical Cancer Research 2004 10: 6277s-6403s

 

In vivo Models for Experimental Therapeutics Relevant to Human Cancer

Meeting, April 1, 2004, Frederick, Maryland
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2004 64: 8478-8480

 

Cancer Vaccines How Can We Enhance Efficacy of Therapeutic Vaccines?

International Meeting, April 19-20 2004, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy  Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2004 64:6827-6830

 

Lymphangiogenesis and Cancer

Workshop, April 21-23, 2004, Washington D.C. Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2004

 

The Biology of Tobacco and Nicotine: Bench to Bedside

Meeting, April 23, 2004 in Gaithersburg, Maryland Meeting Report: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 2005 14: 764-767

 

Molecular Target-Based Treatment of Human Cancer

10th International Conference, April 29-May 3, 2004 in Shanghai, China Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2005

 

Head and Neck Cancer

NCI Workshop, May 24-26, 2004 in Washington, D.C Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2004 64: 8126-8129

 

Inflammation in the Genesis and Perpetuation of Cancer

NCI Think Tank Meeting June 2-4, 2004
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2005 65: 8583-8586 

 

Sixteenth Annual Pezcoller Symposium

Symposium, June 10-12, 2004 in Trento, Italy
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2004 64: 8474-8477 

 

The Role of Telomeres and Telomerase in Cancer

AACR Special Conference, November 3-7, 2004, San Francisco, California
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2005 65: 3513-3517

 

International Conference on Tumor Progression and Therapeutic Resistance

International Conference, November 7-9, 2004, Philadelphia, PA
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2005 65: 4475-4484 

 

Expanding the Use of Magnetic Resonance in the Assessment of Tumor Response to Therapy

NCI Workshop, November 22-23, 2004, Bethesda, Maryland Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2005 65: 7041-7044 

 

Pancreatic Cancer in Mice and Man: The Penn Workshop 2006

International Meeting, December 1-3, 2004, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2006
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-3914

 

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Meetings Held in 2003

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Genetics and Cytogenetics of Multiple Myeloma

International Workshop, February, 2003, Paris, France Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2004 64: 1546-1558  

 

Recent Advances and Future Directions in Endocrine Manipulation of Breast Cancer

Third International Conference, June 21-22, 2003, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Meeting Report: Clinical Cancer Research 2004 10: 327S-409S 

 

SNPs, Haplotypes, and Cancer: Applications in Molecular Epidemiology

AACR Special Conference, September 13-17, 2003, Key Biscayne, Florida
Meeting Report: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 2004 13: 681-687

 

Novel Agents in the Treatment of Lung Cancer

1st International Conference, October 17-18, 2003, Cambridge, Massachusettes Meeting Report: Clinical Cancer Research 2004 10: 4199S-4285S

 

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Meetings Held in 2002

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Apoptosis and Cancer

AACR Special Conference, February 13-17, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawaii
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2003 63: 263-268

 

Current Research Promises and Challenges in Behavioral Oncology

Roundtable session report from ASCO Annual Meeting 2002, March 10, 2002, Bethesda, MD Meeting Report: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 2004 13: 171-180

 

Proteases, Extracellular Matrix, and Cancer

AACR Special Conference, October 2002, Hilton Head, North Carolina
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2003 63: 4750-4755

 

Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research

AACR International Conference, October 14-18, 2002, Boston, Massachusetts
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2003 63: 5649-5655

 

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Reports of Other Scientific Meetings

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Meetings Held in 2003

Oxygen Homeostasis/Hypoxia Meeting

Meeting, February 12, 2003, Washington, DC
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2004 64: 3350-3356

 

Molecular Genetics of Multiple Myeloma

Roundtable Workshop, February 20-23, 2003, Paris, France
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2004 64: 1546-1558

 

Frontiers of Mutagenesis and DNA Repair

Workshop, 2003, Ventura, California
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2004 64: 3357-3360

 

Fifteenth Annual Pezcoller Symposium

Symposium, June 12-14, 2003, Rovereto, Italy
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2004 64: 2929-2933

 

Stress Signaling in Cancer

International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Symposium, July 25-27, 2003, Quebec City, Canada
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2004 64: 1893-1898

 

Modern Criteria to Establish Human Cancer Etiology

NCI Workshop, December 11-12, 2003, in Washington, D.C. Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2004 64: 5518-5524

 

Validation of a Causal Relationship: Criteria to Establish Etiology

NCI Workshop, December 11-12, 2003, Washington, DC
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2004 64: 5518-5524

 

Comparative Pathology of Nerve Sheath Tumors in Mouse Models and Humans

Workshop, 2003, Boston, Massachusetts
Meeting Report: Cancer Research 2004 64: 3718-3724

 

 

Meetings Held in 2002

American Society of Preventive Oncology

26th Annual Meeting, March 10, 2002, Bethesda, MD
Meeting Report: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 2004 13: 1094-1098

 

Behavioral Oncology Interest Group Roundtable, March 10, 2002, Bethesda, MD
Meeting Report: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 2004 13: 171-180

 

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