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Useful information for cancer patients and their families, survivors, caregivers, advocates, and others from Cancer Today magazine.
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Useful information for cancer patients and their families, survivors, caregivers, advocates, and others from Cancer Today magazine.
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Thanks to research-driven advances in diagnosis, detection, and treatment, overall age-adjusted cancer death rates in the U.S. decreased by 31 percent from 1991 to 2018.
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Dr. Susan Band Horwitz: Decades of Work to Understand One Molecule. Her groundbreaking research to discover the properties of paclitaxel led to an effective cancer treatment.
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Nearly 100,000 people in the United States are expected to be diagnosed with melanoma this year. May is Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Month, learn more about this type of cancer.
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More than 25,000 cases of brain and other nervous system cancers are expected to be diagnosed in the United States this year. Learn about treatment options.
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Researchers at the recent AACR Annual Meeting 2022 examined advances in cancer prevention including finding, understanding, and intercepting precancer before it develops a malignancy.
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An AACR scientific report examining the pandemic and its impact on cancer research and patient care.
Learn MoreThe AACR and its more than 50,000 members worldwide are advancing a scientifically bold agenda against the collection of diseases we call cancer.
Learn MoreFor the woman with Lynch syndrome, a delayed colonoscopy highlighted the impact of the pandemic on cancer screening.
Learn Moremillion cancer survivors in the U.S. are living with, through, and beyond their disease thanks to research
Learn Morenew therapeutics against cancer were approved by the FDA from August 1, 2020, to July 31, 2021
Learn Morepercent decrease of the overall age-adjusted cancer death rate in the U.S. from 1991 to 2018
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