American Association for Cancer Research

2008 Cancer Events Calendar

2008 Calendar

 

Date

Event

Location

Additional Information

Ongoing Support Group  The MetaCancer Foundation and The Wellness Community: Online Support Groups for People Living With Metastatic Cancer www.metacancer.org 

- Weekly 90-minute sessions

- Professionally-led

- Free of charge  

Ongoing Study The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: The Sister Study - Help Find the Causes of Breast Cancer  Various Participating Locations

Enrollment:              1-877-4-SISTER

(1-877-474-7837) 

April 3-6 The Intercultural Cancer Council's 11th Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved and Cancer: Charting A New Course Together: Quality Health Care for All Washington, DC  
April 12-16 AACR Annual Meeting 2008 San Diego, CA  
April 16 CancerCare Presents Treatment Updates for Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma: Multidisciplinary Care Teleconference 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Eastern time 
April 17 CancerCare Presents Progress in the Treatment of Renal Cell Cancer Teleconference 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Eastern time 
April 17 The Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society: Blood Cancer Conference Harrisburg, PA  
April 18 Ireland Cancer Center's Update on Cervical Cancer Prevention: New Technology, New Evidence, and New Recommendations
Cleveland, OH  
April 19
Washington Cancer Institute's Free "Living Well With Cancer Seminar"
Washington, DC
 
April 20 The Wellness Community Strides for Hope Philadelphia, PA  
April 22 CancerCare Presents The Sixth Annual Cancer Survivorship Series: Living With, Through and Beyond Cancer, Part I: The Importance of Communicating with Your Doctor About Follow-Up Care Teleconference 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Eastern time
April 25 CancerCare Presents Dental Health During Cancer Treatments Teleconference 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Eastern time
April 26 Sandy Rollman Fourth Annual Teal Ribbon 5K to Overcome Ovarian Cancer
Philadelphia, PA  
May 4 The Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition's Harrisburg Senators Breast Cancer Awareness Day Commerce Bank Park, Harrisburg, PA  
May 11 Susan G. Komen Philadelphia Race for the Cure Philadelphia, PA  
May 15 Gilda's Club Worldwide 2008 Annual Benefit New York, NY  
May 15 11th Annual Massachusetts Prostate Cancer Symposium Boston, MA  
May 15-18 Oncology Nursing Society's 33rd Annual Congress Philadelphia, PA  
May 16 The Wellness Community's 10th Annual Evening in the Park Philadelphia, PA  
May 16 CancerCare: Medical Update on Metastatic Prostate Cancer Teleconference 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Eastern time
May 17 CancerCare:Progress in the Treatment of Renal Cell Cancer Teleconference 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Eastern time
May 17-22 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association Orlando, FL  
May 19 Living Beyond Breast Cancer's Networking Group Meeting: Your New Normal: Reclaiming Body Image West Conshohocken, PA, near Philadelphia  
May 22 CancerCare: The Sixth Annual Cancer Survivorship Series: Living With, Through and Beyond Cancer, Part I: The Importance of Communicating with Your Doctor About Follow-Up Care Teleconference 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Eastern time
May 20-23  AACR's Candidate Pathways, Whole Genome Scans: Reconciling Results, Looking into the Future Carefree, AZ
 
May 28-31 AACR's Cancer Epigenetics Boston, MA  

May 30 - June 3

The American Society of Clinical Oncology's Annual Meeting
Chicago, IL  
June 4-8 The World Conference on Breast Cancer Foundation's Fifth World Conference on Breast Cancer Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada  
June 11 CancerCare Presents: Coping with Nausea and Vomiting from Chemotherapy TeleConference 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Eastern time
June 19 CancerCare Presents: Medical Update on Ovarian Cancer from the 2008 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting TeleConference 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Eastern time
June 19 - 21 The Black Women's Health Imperative's 25th Anniversary Celebration Washington, D.C.  
June 30 Kaleidoscope of Hope Golf Classic Florham Park, NJ  
July 6-13 AACR's Pathobiology of Cancer: The Edward A. Smuckler Memorial Workshop Snowmass Village, CO  
July 8-10 11th Annual Ovarian Cancer National Alliance Conference Washington, D.C.  
July 11-18 AACR's Molecular Biology in Clinical Oncology Workshop Aspen, CO  
July 13-19 AACR's Cancer Biostatistics Workshop

Sonoma, CA

 
Aug. 2-8  Methods in Clinical Cancer Research
(A joint ASCO/AACR workshop)
Vail, CO  
Aug. 3-7 Joint AACR—Metastasis Research Society International Conference Vancouver, BC, Canada  
Aug. 27-31 Eighth Biennial National Lymphedema Network International Conference -
Lymphedema: Riding The Wave of Discovery

San Diego, CA  
Aug. 31 - Sept. 6
Australia & Asia Pacific Clinical Oncology Research Development Workshop
Queensland, Australia
 
Sept. 4-5 Seventh Biennial Ovarian Cancer Research Symposium Seattle, WA  
Oct. 12 American Cancer Society's 2008 Making Strides Against Breast Cancer

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 

 
Oct. 14-17 AACR's Chemical and Biological Aspects of Inflammation and Cancer Ko Olina, O'ahu, HI  
Oct. 21-24
EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics
Geneva, Switzerland
 
Oct. 23-26 Y-ME Ride to Empower Solvang, CA  
Oct. 26 LUNGevity Foundation's NYC Walk to Beat Lung Cancer New York, NY  
Nov. 3-6  Centennial Conference: Impact of Emerging Technologies on Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Jerusalem, Israel  
Nov. 11-14 AACR's Targeting the PI3-Kinase Pathway in Cancer Cambridge, MA  
Nov. 16-19
AACR's Seventh International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research
Washington, DC  
Dec. 2-5 AACR's Tumor Immunology Miami, FL  
Dec. 5-7 Hong Kong Cancer Institute/AACR International Conference on Infection and Cancer: Biology, Therapeutics, and Prevention in conjunction with the Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China  


April 30, 2008